Show your Roman artwork

[Diocle]

@Diocle, no, it was different back then. A parent would have taught their child Latin like a child today learns English; today to learn Latin you have to go through years of schooling and weeks of memorization, because it's not a natural language to us. Had our parents spoke it and taught it to us growing up, instead of English, it would be a first language and easy to speak.

As far as we know the Fabricae in at least ITaly (possibly the ones around Soissons) were still working, Ferreolus was able to supply both Roman and Gothic/Barbarian troops with Armor before the Battle of Chalons took place.

The first non-roman ridge helms of that era would have been similar to these:


That's where the Carolingian helmet came from. You helmet is far too late to be Vth century. IXth century, sure.

Wrong example MMFA, the pic of Angus represents a looted Roman helmet during the campaign of Adrianople.

My helmet is in no way too late, instead IMHO it's perfect for the reasons why I decided to use it!

Anyway If you know some Ridge helmet from Gaul (not Concesti in Romania!) show me the exemplar, till then let me show, using my silly drawings, my personal hypothesis about what happened during the late V century in the Roman Gaul, when the public Fabricae were no more working.

I tried to depict an exemplar of helmet that can be the ancestor of the later Medieval exemplars.