01-09-2006, 04:03 PM
Cheers Guys
I managed to get a small image of the web but not too detailed. Give me an e-mail to [email protected] and I will copy you ..or Google it.
Dan ..got your image from a book on Gladiators I bought a week ago :wink:
I am not fully satisfied with the Crupellarious as having existed at all as the descriptions echo those of a Medaeval Knight whoapparently needed to be hoisted on his horse by a pully system and could not rise if knocked over .... I have seen a fully armoured knight do a cartwheel
hock: Sounds like a bit of old style Cock & Bull to me, something to add a bit of flavour to the story.
What the statuette reminds me of are 1st World War soldiers at bayonet practice. The were padded up and had Heath Robinson helmets and used those plunger pretend bayonets.
The image of the statuette gives me rise to consider that it might be a practice outfit;
(a) the padding is covering where dangerous hits would be taken in a real bout and the "plates/padding" is horizontal hugging the body like padding rather tham hermetically sealed plates.
(b) the helmet looks cheap & easy to produce as a practice helmet
© you could go for it in such a get up with a wooded sword
You may ask ;
(a) why practice in an outfit differing from that you will fight in ? To save the good kit for the arena
(b) why would someone make a statuette of apractice kit ? Roman geeks
© why would a venerable old Roman lie ? Same reason as Tony Blair ( who may or may not have lied :roll: )
Anyway ... let me have it guys ... am I mad or what ?
I managed to get a small image of the web but not too detailed. Give me an e-mail to [email protected] and I will copy you ..or Google it.
Dan ..got your image from a book on Gladiators I bought a week ago :wink:
I am not fully satisfied with the Crupellarious as having existed at all as the descriptions echo those of a Medaeval Knight whoapparently needed to be hoisted on his horse by a pully system and could not rise if knocked over .... I have seen a fully armoured knight do a cartwheel
hock: Sounds like a bit of old style Cock & Bull to me, something to add a bit of flavour to the story.What the statuette reminds me of are 1st World War soldiers at bayonet practice. The were padded up and had Heath Robinson helmets and used those plunger pretend bayonets.
The image of the statuette gives me rise to consider that it might be a practice outfit;
(a) the padding is covering where dangerous hits would be taken in a real bout and the "plates/padding" is horizontal hugging the body like padding rather tham hermetically sealed plates.
(b) the helmet looks cheap & easy to produce as a practice helmet
© you could go for it in such a get up with a wooded sword
You may ask ;
(a) why practice in an outfit differing from that you will fight in ? To save the good kit for the arena
(b) why would someone make a statuette of apractice kit ? Roman geeks
© why would a venerable old Roman lie ? Same reason as Tony Blair ( who may or may not have lied :roll: )
Anyway ... let me have it guys ... am I mad or what ?
Conal Moran
Do or do not, there is no try!
Yoda
Do or do not, there is no try!
Yoda
