07-30-2013, 03:50 AM
According to "Armed Batavians" two narrow belts were worn crosswise from the late Augustan period till the middle of the first century AD. With the introduction of the Pompeii type gladius around 50 AD, one belt was discarded and both sword and dagger were attached to the wider remaining belt. Plates on narrow belts were cast, flat and undecorated or had niëllo, while plates on wider belts were made from thin metal sheet with chased decoration in relief (like concentric circles).
This seems to suggest that you are restricted to a narrow belt with flat, cast (niëlled) belt plates when you want to wear crosswise belts. Is it authentic to wear two wide belts with concentric circles crosswise or not? And one narrow belt with a wider belt crosswise, is that authentic too?
This seems to suggest that you are restricted to a narrow belt with flat, cast (niëlled) belt plates when you want to wear crosswise belts. Is it authentic to wear two wide belts with concentric circles crosswise or not? And one narrow belt with a wider belt crosswise, is that authentic too?
(aka Niels)