05-08-2013, 10:52 PM
Dain II & Eduard,
Someone on RAT (perhaps John Conyard) "unofficially" wears a pair of "Hunnic" or "Roman" splint greaves on ocassian. They were depicted in the Osprey volume on "The Late Roman Cavalry." I have seen an EARLY and nearly exact example fashioned from bone in a Russian article, I believe from the Altai or Tuva. The pair in the Ashmolian Museum are Scythian... as in western.
As you have both noted-- the tradition and STYLE of construction runs straight, and we can see that it can be traced back to the bronze age.
Hey! I think I'm right there, somewhere! :whistle:
Someone on RAT (perhaps John Conyard) "unofficially" wears a pair of "Hunnic" or "Roman" splint greaves on ocassian. They were depicted in the Osprey volume on "The Late Roman Cavalry." I have seen an EARLY and nearly exact example fashioned from bone in a Russian article, I believe from the Altai or Tuva. The pair in the Ashmolian Museum are Scythian... as in western.
As you have both noted-- the tradition and STYLE of construction runs straight, and we can see that it can be traced back to the bronze age.
Hey! I think I'm right there, somewhere! :whistle:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb