Auxilia shieldbosses why "allways" brass??

[Folkert van Wijk]

If I do look in my book "krieg und frieden" from the museum in Bonn, I do find a lot of German Auxilia grave finds showing more or less pointed and in my opinion iron bosses. So I start wondering is the idea of Auxilia with brass bosses another standardized way of showing the audience that auxilia must have bin poorer equipped then the standard legionary??
Or is there any substantial archological back up for this idea??

As you can see I am trying hard to get a idea about Auxilia by reconsidering just about everything that's the reenactment standard :lol:



[size=75:3iukp177]Next topic to come Pugio's and Gladii... :lol: :lol: [/size]