Mike,<br>
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Btw, will the Carlisle finds be in there as well? (Won't impact whether I buy it or not!) I suspect that they were too late for publication given the very long lead times needed by publishers....<br>
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<em>Btw, will the Carlisle finds be in there as well? (Won't impact whether I buy it or not!) I suspect that they were too late for publication given the very long lead times needed by publishers</em><br>
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Since it is still being written (and drawn) it is not impossible ;-)<br>
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Including the Carlisle finds would be fantastic.<br>
I assume that there are no more developments on the Leicester helmet that the British Museum were conserving?<br>
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I think I count ten or eleven, but if I can find the 'poll' button, maybe we can count everyone. I'll take the lead in talking to Oxbow about pre-ordering. <p>Legio XX<br>
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Hello Mike,<br>
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Quote:</em></strong><hr>Since it is still being written (and drawn)<hr><br>
You may want to update your information on plumbatae and the sites they were found?<br>
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<em>You may want to update your information on plumbatae and the sites they were found?</em><br>
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Well everything gets reviewed to see if it needs updating, but we are not listing <em>all</em> finds of anything, only those that tell us something significant. It is feasible (but not, I suppose, very likely) that a lot of new finds could be made of a particular type of artefact at various sites, but which nevertheless do not merit any comment. In a work of synthesis you have to be brutal ;-)<br>
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OK, I put a poll in the Marketplace section to get the pre-order count.<br>
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looks very interesting but uhh, what kind of book is it?<br>
A book with all the findings of Roman equipment until....?<br>
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Is there an indication of the price? <p>-------------------------------------------------------<br>
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<em>uhh, what kind of book is it?</em><br>
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From the blurb for edition 1:<br>
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<em><strong>Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome</strong><br>
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Rome's Rise to empire is often said to have owed much to the efficiency and military skill of her armies and their technological superiority over barbarian enemies. But just how ‘advanced’ was Roman military equipment? What were its origins and how did it evolve?<br>
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The authors of this book bring together a wealth of evidence from all over the Roman Empire – excavated examples as well as pictorial and documentary sources – to present a picture of what range of equipment would be available at any given time, what it would look like and how it would function. They examine how certain pieces were adopted from Rome’s enemies and adapted to particular conditions of warfare prevailing in different parts of the Empire. They also investigate in detail the technology of military equipment and the means by which it was produced, and discuss wider questions such as the status of the soldier in Roman society.<br>
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The result is a very detailed and authoritative handbook, which, together with the specially prepared drawings, illustrates each element in the equipment.</em><br>
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Hmmm... did I write that? I'm sure I wouldn't have begun a sentence with 'but'... But you never can tell!<br>
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Thanks Mike!<br>
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you have convinced me that i need this book to complete my life so i´ll also line up for one. <p>-------------------------------------------------------<br>
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I'll be getting it too, but I've already convinced my wife to buy it for me for Christmas.<br>
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Hi Dr. Bishop,<br>
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I'm really looking forward to the new edition of B&C, but could you please place Arlon in Belgium in stead of Luxemburg as you did in the 1993 edition and also recently in Lorica Segmentata vol. 1. The mistake to place Arlon in Luxemburg is easy to make because Arlon is the capital of the Belgian province Luxemburg (yes it's confusing), and is very near the Luxemburg border. I know it's only a minor mistake, I don't want to annoy you or anyone else, but I bet you wouldn't like Chirnside to be placed in England in stead of Scotland.<br>
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<em>could you please place Arlon in Belgium in stead of Luxemburg as you did in the 1993 edition and also recently in Lorica Segmentata vol. 1. The mistake to place Arlon in Luxemburg is easy to make because Arlon is the capital of the Belgian province Luxemburg (yes it's confusing)</em><br>
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Too right – it <em>is</em> confusing. Nevertheless, I will make sure it is correct for the next edition. I wonder where we got that from?!<br>
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<em>I bet you wouldn't like Chirnside to be placed in England in stead of Scotland</em><br>
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Funny you should mention that – some parts of Scotland <em>are</em> placed in England for postal purposes (eg Paxton and Foulden have Berwick postcodes); this means their post goes via Newcastle before going anywhere else, whereas ours (only a couple of miles away) goes via Edinburgh! It is <em>not</em> popular and I believe questions have been asked in the Scottish parliament about it.<br>
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I think you scared them all of<br>
Or there was only this one mistake<br>
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Oh, I've got one! Page 149 of the first edtion, in the description of the Dura Europas scutum. The thickness of the strips of wood used in its construction is given as "15-20 mm (1/2-3/4 in)", the total thickness as "50 mm (2 in)". Clearly there was a typo at some point in the metric measurements, which should be 1.5 mm to 2 mm, with a total thickness of c. 5 mm. The English measurements must have been calculated AFTER this typo got in! (Of course, a scutum of that size with a thickness of 2 inches is going to weigh about 80 pounds.)<br>
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The weird thing is that the book on late Roman equipment by I.P. Stephenson copied this error verbatim! One of the many reasons I never bought that one...<br>
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Definitely slobbering over the prospect of getting the revised Bishop and Coulston, though!<br>
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