11-23-2016, 04:21 AM
It's a shame so many couldn't make it to your event.
The point I was making though, is that while you have gone to a lot of trouble to create an accurate impression for your chosen time period, the others in your photo have not. There are two trooper helmets, four of them are wearing trousers (including one unashamedly wearing full length modern trousers), three sets of long sleeves and what appear to be a pair of patterned leather greaves. I don't know when the Romans took to wearing long sleeves, but I have always had the impression it was some time in the mid second century AD. As for trousers, the earliest evidence for Roman infantry in trousers is a single metope from the Tropaeum Triani at Adamklissi (all the others showing infantry show them without trousers). Again, we don't know when they started wearing trousers, but according to the evidence of the Vindolanda tablets, Batavian soldiers stationed where Hadrian's wall would be built a few years later weren't wearing trousers in AD 97, with them being about the only item of clothing not being mentioned in any of the tablets.
Crispvs
The point I was making though, is that while you have gone to a lot of trouble to create an accurate impression for your chosen time period, the others in your photo have not. There are two trooper helmets, four of them are wearing trousers (including one unashamedly wearing full length modern trousers), three sets of long sleeves and what appear to be a pair of patterned leather greaves. I don't know when the Romans took to wearing long sleeves, but I have always had the impression it was some time in the mid second century AD. As for trousers, the earliest evidence for Roman infantry in trousers is a single metope from the Tropaeum Triani at Adamklissi (all the others showing infantry show them without trousers). Again, we don't know when they started wearing trousers, but according to the evidence of the Vindolanda tablets, Batavian soldiers stationed where Hadrian's wall would be built a few years later weren't wearing trousers in AD 97, with them being about the only item of clothing not being mentioned in any of the tablets.
Crispvs
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