The Kalkriese segmentata

[mcbishop]

The Varusschlacht museum and park at Kalkriese have a new publication (entitled Jahresmagazin 2022 Rückblende) downloadable as a PDF which has photos (on pp.16-21) of half of the whole of the conserved cuirass in pieces (so examples of all the types of plates). This piece of Schienenporn is in German, but you don't need German to understand the pictures. If you want to know more, cut and paste chunks of the text into Google Translate (or, for a consistently better translation, try DeepL).

They have also reinterpreted their original reconstruction of the upper shoulderguards (there were no lesser shoulderguards on the Kalkriese type) and reversed them. Make of that what you will.

Mike Bishop

[Nathan Ross]

(or, for a consistently better translation, try DeepL).

Thanks for the suggestion - very useful! Hopefully they'll add Latin to their language list at some point.

[Sean Manning]

And here is the full reconstruction painting by Roland Warzecha https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-kalkriese-78726051 (ironically, he is very much not an armoured fighter)

[Leoshenlong]

With this impressive archaeological find, can we predict the percentage of segmentata in the Roman legions?

[Robert Vermaat]

With this impressive archaeological find, can we predict the percentage of segmentata in the Roman legions?

That would largely depend on the timeframe (if at all possible).

[kavan]

A short summary in English.

https://the-past.com/news/roman-body-arm...-analysis/

[LonginusXXI]

The Varusschlacht museum and park at Kalkriese have a new publication (entitled Jahresmagazin 2022 Rückblende) downloadable as a PDF which has photos (on pp.16-21) of half of the whole of the conserved cuirass in pieces (so examples of all the types of plates). This piece of Schienenporn is in German, but you don't need German to understand the pictures. If you want to know more, cut and paste chunks of the text into Google Translate (or, for a consistently better translation, try DeepL).

They have also reinterpreted their original reconstruction of the upper shoulderguards (there were no lesser shoulderguards on the Kalkriese type) and reversed them. Make of that what you will.

Mike Bishop

When would shoulder guards be introduced under this analysis?