Corbridge A Breastplates - to cross or not cross diagonally?

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But if armor is made that directly and deliberately contradicts the known historical evidence, how are these not fantasy pieces?

That's your arguement with Hib, not with me. Don't drag me into the segmentata design jihad part of this thread :lol:

The box? Do you think the Romans used wooden boxes like we use plastic trash bags?

No, but I do think that they were used to keep thing from getting underfoot. Wooden boxes and baskets were the Rubbermaid tubs of the day. A well-crafted box is just a workaday container - although to modern sensabiliies a wooden box is anything but mundane.

You are ignoring the point of my question, however - how do you deny the use of the items to the hostiles, since you don't have the capabilities to destroy them?