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Hi,
I'm trying to find out info on what armour and weapons legioanires of the mid - late 3rd C had.
I seem to get conflicting evidence as to whether they were spear armed or still retained the combination of missle weapons, then the use of the sword.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Quote:You get differing views as to whether they were armed with long spears or still with pilum
This is mainly so because both weapons were still in use, as far as archaeological evidence suggests. During the third century you have despite the similarity of fibulae and baldric fittings etc. over the empire still some kind of local differences, which are mainly visible by such things. So whereas in Raetia around 270 AD the soldiers along the limes may have been mainly using the hasta, the soldiers in the hinterland here and there were still using pila, e.g.
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I am trying to find some info on what 3rd Century AD roman legionaries were armed with.
