08-25-2010, 08:36 PM
Hi Ron
Well you have neatly got us back on thread. i.e Misconceptions. Of course you are right, at that period they should all have a ring on the top of their helmet like Trajan's Column or in Asterix! see top picture.
The figure could however be a legionary from the earlier Stanegate frontier period. In fact shown as an optio, because of the knobbed staff and wax tablets because we all know they carried both as part of their official uniform. In fact if you could see more of the crest we could probably all see that it is in fact black and white because we all know every optio had one of those. :wink:
Graham.
Well you have neatly got us back on thread. i.e Misconceptions. Of course you are right, at that period they should all have a ring on the top of their helmet like Trajan's Column or in Asterix! see top picture.
The figure could however be a legionary from the earlier Stanegate frontier period. In fact shown as an optio, because of the knobbed staff and wax tablets because we all know they carried both as part of their official uniform. In fact if you could see more of the crest we could probably all see that it is in fact black and white because we all know every optio had one of those. :wink:
Graham.
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
