Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

[Ron Andrea]

I never imagined cavalry in Britain as lines of heavily-armored horsemen charging masses of infantry, in fact they may have used horses for mobility rather than combat. But, since the Romans had introduced cavalry into Britain and Britain eventually evolved the heavy feudal horse warrior like the rest of Europe, it's an interesting question what the links between them may have looked like . . . assuming there was an unbroken chain.

It's just as easy to imagine that the Roman- or Asian-style horse warrior of one era petered out and later the increasingly heavily armed and armored horse warrior of the Middle Ages arose from continental traditions and borrowings.

We can imagine all sorts of things--as this thread has indicated. The question is: what will the meager hard data of history support? The answer is, I'm afraid, not much.

But we can dream.