New discovery: loricas segmentatas Leon, Spain

[Robert Vermaat]

As far as I know, until the establishment of the Fabricae the LEgions were supplied with private buisness's armor. The locals, it seems, would continue making what they knew how to make. Ie in the east the locals oftentimes were used to making scale, so scale would be common, and in gaul the locals were used to chainmail, so chainmail would be common.
The Romans used whatever the Locals knew to make, so if they were making Sgmentata still, then the Romans used it.

Sure, but apparently this armour survived into the period when the fabricae were established. btw, I think that the legionary fabricae would be the first place to make this armour, and maintain it.