Ideas for Severan Legionary

[mcbishop]

perhaps when in Spain..........

Or even in Carlisle.

Mike Bishop

[John Conyard]

I am sorry Mike, I do not have information on the Carlisle find, and you are teasing me.

http://www.armamentaria.com/store/index ... 2870bea195

is a good product and can be used for other periods as well. Butted mail is becoming rather passe.

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[fischereco5]

Thanks for the suggestions, your advice is very helpful. Also, your website has been a wonderful resource for me as well Paul.

[mcbishop]

I am sorry Mike, I do not have information on the Carlisle find, and you are teasing me.

I tease you not ;-) ) It was a Newstead backplate from a late context at Carlisle. Much muttering of 'residual' at the time (more interesting for its hinge than its context) but it apparently came from 'an early 4th century' deposit in the intervallum area beneath Tullie House museum (an extension added in 1989). It assumed a new significance in the light of the León finds.

Mike Bishop

[John Conyard]

Well, thanks for that. I thought that was 3rd century. I am now pacing around the house as one who is feeling as if the certainties upon which his world is based have been undermined.........

It will be leather armour next.

[Paul Elliott]

Indeed ... seeing someone in segmentata and a ridge helm is not an experience I can adequately prepare myself for ... hock:

[Virilis]

Indeed ... seeing someone in segmentata and a ridge helm is not an experience I can adequately prepare myself for ... hock:

Then again it would look soooo cool :wink: ...

[John Conyard]

No, it would look bad.

The idea of cheap equipment from an age of poor paid, barely professional soldiers surviving into our age of disciplined well equipped proffessional soldiers is too horrible to contemplate. It is like Britain without aicraft carriers, or the aircraft to fly from them. Impossible!

[Virilis]

No, it would look bad.

The idea of cheap equipment from an age of poor paid, barely professional soldiers surviving into our age of disciplined well equipped proffessional soldiers is too horrible to contemplate. It is like Britain without aicraft carriers, or the aircraft to fly from them. Impossible!

How about as a "downshifting" for re-enactors :wink: !? Bad joke, know...

[scott]

Ha ha ha - i'm loving this post John...! Brilliant :o

The idea of cheap equipment from an age of poor paid, barely professional soldiers surviving into our age of disciplined well equipped proffessional soldiers is too horrible to contemplate. It is like Britain without aicraft carriers, or the aircraft to fly from them. Impossible!

Scott.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

So ridge helm and lorica seg....I take it only a Newstead will do?

Or is that as impossible as a British army corp with out tanks?

[Forty-One]

So ridge helm and lorica seg....I take it only a Newstead will do?

A "Newstead" lorica covered in rust and put on back to front because it's an old relic someone found in the back of the depot stores, and nobody can remember how to assemble it properly.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

So ridge helm and lorica seg....I take it only a Newstead will do?

A "Newstead" lorica covered in rust and put on back to front because it's an old relic someone found in the back of the depot stores, and nobody can remember how to assemble it properly.

Nahh, i think any idiot would figure that one out..lol

[Lindsay_Powell]

It will be interesting to see what period the new armour finds from Caerleon (Priory Fields digs, Summer 2010) date to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11288684

[Forty-One]

So ridge helm and lorica seg....I take it only a Newstead will do?

A "Newstead" lorica covered in rust and put on back to front because it's an old relic someone found in the back of the depot stores, and nobody can remember how to assemble it properly.

Nahh, i think any idiot would figure that one out..lol

"Credunt plerique militaribus ingeniis subtilitatem deesse"
-- Tacitus, Agricola 1.9

["It is a common belief that soldiers lack the finer points of intelligence"]