12-01-2001, 11:50 AM
Ah, the usual Osprey inventiveness - until now my favourite had been those little shin protector things that somebody somewhere seems to have decided Roman soldiers wore. Evidence...? wot's that?<br>
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None of the complete armguards that have survived (nor any of the depictions, come to that) show couter plates. They are simply unnecessary. Armguard plates always overlap upwards on surviving examples (even on those that aren't found corroded together, you can usually see the marks on neighbouring plates).<br>
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The explanation for the differing directions of overlap sounds... fanciful, to be polite and betrays, I suspect, a misunderstanding of the armatura (and/or one too many viewings of Gladiator ;-).<br>
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Mike Bishop <p></p><i></i>
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None of the complete armguards that have survived (nor any of the depictions, come to that) show couter plates. They are simply unnecessary. Armguard plates always overlap upwards on surviving examples (even on those that aren't found corroded together, you can usually see the marks on neighbouring plates).<br>
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The explanation for the differing directions of overlap sounds... fanciful, to be polite and betrays, I suspect, a misunderstanding of the armatura (and/or one too many viewings of Gladiator ;-).<br>
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Mike Bishop <p></p><i></i>
