Rolling Roman Iron for Segmentata Plates

[Tarbicus]

Compresing through rolling is surely not like inventing a steam engine. My grandmothers doing the washing in a mangle when I was five years old could tell you that.

Given that there were specifications for spathae, according to one lanciarius in his found letters, why wouldn't there be for armour? Forget frontier remoteness; if word had gotten around about this fantastic armour then I dare say the local legion commanders would facilitate finding out how through their many connections, and gladly share it with the local fabricae, if only to shut up the grumbling legionaries and auxilia who wanted to import the stuff from abroad.

Or rather, I can really imagine that.