09-07-2006, 10:04 PM
Welcome to RAT! The timing and importance of stirrups have been discussed at some length previously; a search on this site should show some threads. In summary, it seems unlikely that any horsemen in the late Roman world used or needed stirrups; well trained horsemen would have been reasonably effective without them. I agree that effective cavalry may have been very important for a post Roman British army.
Felix Wang