"Barbarian" military equipment studies

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I came across a Vindolanda Tablet that contained a report on the fighting characteristics of the native britons.

"... the Britons are unprotected by armour (?). There are very many cavalry. The cavalry do not use swords nor do the wretched Britons mount in order to throw javelins."

For a fuller explanation look at



http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/4DLink2 ... yEnglish=1