10-08-2015, 09:36 AM
The Example illustrated above from Newstead from 80-100ad was found during the excavation by Curle, where he describes it in some detail and as the only example found of this type, examples of the fellboot type and the Alledale type are also found at Newstead with Carbatinas and Calcai types being the norm:
Fellboot:
http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.p...chdb=scran
better Pic of Fellboot type dated 90-110ad:
[attachment=12889]00988946enhanced26.5cm90-110ad.jpg[/attachment]
Allendale:
http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.p...chdb=scran
Better pic of Allendale type dated 100-120ad:
[attachment=12890]00988945enhanced23cm90-120ad.jpg[/attachment]
More on Allendales here: http://www.romanarmytalk.com/20-roman-re...tml#369040
It would suggest that Traditional Caligae were being replaced completely at this time by closed forms based on calcai construction, since this appears the same at Vindolanda (a single Caligae type boot from phase II 92-97ad is mentioned, though not apparantly a Caliga per se?), where Fellboot variations and Allendales seem to form the core of military footware, and that this transition must have occured sometime during the late 80s or early 90s ad......
references:
Curle 1911, A Roman Frontier Post and its People.
C. van Driel-Murray 1993, Vindolanda, The Early wooden Forts Vol3.
Fellboot:
http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.p...chdb=scran
better Pic of Fellboot type dated 90-110ad:
[attachment=12889]00988946enhanced26.5cm90-110ad.jpg[/attachment]
Allendale:
http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.p...chdb=scran
Better pic of Allendale type dated 100-120ad:
[attachment=12890]00988945enhanced23cm90-120ad.jpg[/attachment]
More on Allendales here: http://www.romanarmytalk.com/20-roman-re...tml#369040
It would suggest that Traditional Caligae were being replaced completely at this time by closed forms based on calcai construction, since this appears the same at Vindolanda (a single Caligae type boot from phase II 92-97ad is mentioned, though not apparantly a Caliga per se?), where Fellboot variations and Allendales seem to form the core of military footware, and that this transition must have occured sometime during the late 80s or early 90s ad......
references:
Curle 1911, A Roman Frontier Post and its People.
C. van Driel-Murray 1993, Vindolanda, The Early wooden Forts Vol3.
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
