Holding up a cingulum with segmentata

[mcbishop]

is it the right size? When done up it should be tight around the bottom girdle plate. It should be tight enough that you cannot easily push anything (such as a knife blade) between it and the armour. It should act to pull the armour in tightly around the hips.

This is an important point. The placing of the tie loops on actual examples of Corbridge types confirms that they overlapped at either end to form a solid oval: this was imitated on the later Newstead type by actually making the tie loops poke through the mating plate. It was Robinson's conclusion that the lower plates of segmentata had no tie loops precisely because they were held together by the belt(s).

Mike Bishop