11-22-2012, 07:30 AM
Ah well - that may be true, but the Carlisle covers actually retained the impressions made by their frames. The piece of wood was indeed only tentatively identified, but the leathers themselves spoke volumes, including the facts that they could be removed for repairs and appeared not to have been padded (for the riders at any rate). They were also not 'sewn under' and retained large leather flaps which would have hung down between the horse's sides and the rider's legs, thus demonstrating what we are actually seeing below the saddles in the sculptures: not blankets under the saddles but flaps attached to the saddles (which presumably hide the actual blankets underlying them).
It may be true that pad saddles work well for horses, but that in itself does not constitute evidence that the Romans used them, so I ask again: where is the evidence? :wink:
Crispvs
It may be true that pad saddles work well for horses, but that in itself does not constitute evidence that the Romans used them, so I ask again: where is the evidence? :wink:
Crispvs
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