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Possibly not, but the armour found in the deposit could well be spoila or something collected on his travels rather than be his own armour!
I'll email you my article on the segmented armour finds of the Batavian Rural areas. :wink:
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Go to this links to see arlon's pictures and a attemp to build a mix segmentata /chain-mail
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So, are there any XLarge Batavians in need of a Corbridge A?
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So, are there any XLarge Batavians in need of a Corbridge A?
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It's probably not so much the production cost itself as the need for larger pieces of beter quality iron to produce a decent plate as opposed to making a hamata from smaller lengths of lesser quality stock. It's the economics of production as opposed to the economics of construction, in my view.
There may also be other factors, such as not wishing to supply possibly fickle and potentialy turncoat aux troops with the best gear, this on the assumption the seg is superior to the hamata for the Roman way of fighting.
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Caballo, PM sent!
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I wonder too if some of the auxilliaries didn't swap pieces of gear with Legionaries, or just outright bought some Legionary gear.
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Quote:Is there any real evidence to suggest that auxiliaries were equipped in inferior gear compared to low ranking legionaries? I was under the impression that auxilliaries supplied their own gear while the legions were equipped by the state (even though they paid for the gear themselves).
Strictly speaking, even the legionaries were technically responsible for their own gear. We don't know the ins and outs of how stuff was "issued" or acquired, until the third century when it's really state-issued. What's interesting is that we keep talking about how auxiliaries supplied themselves or used "native" equipment, but in their gravestones they practically look more uniform than the legionaries! Certainly they have very spiffy belts, so I would hesitate to assume they got second-rate or obsolete stuff. I also like the letter from the Egyptian kid who has joined the fleet and asks his father to send him a good spear and a pickaxe--what the heck?
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