09-17-2010, 07:48 PM
Shield
Spear and/or Javelins
Often Sword
Often Helmet
Sometimes Mail or Scale Armor
Didn't we establish this 5, 10, 20, and 30 pages ago? I really don't think we can get much more specific. With so little evidence, it's impossible to "settle" any details. For instance, it's a pretty good guess that a typical helmet would be somewhere on the evolutionary scale between a Late Roman ridge helmet such as the Burgh Castle example, and the later Saxon Coppergate or Pioneer helmets. And the Benty Grange helmet suggests that spangenhelms were also known. But from a reenactor's viewpoint, going ahead and building something like that is dancing with speculation, which I hate to do! I like basing my work on archeological examples, or decent artwork at least. But there is so little that we can rely on!
Oh, and in my list, "Often" and "Sometimes" are completely variable and debatable, of course!
Matthew
Spear and/or Javelins
Often Sword
Often Helmet
Sometimes Mail or Scale Armor
Didn't we establish this 5, 10, 20, and 30 pages ago? I really don't think we can get much more specific. With so little evidence, it's impossible to "settle" any details. For instance, it's a pretty good guess that a typical helmet would be somewhere on the evolutionary scale between a Late Roman ridge helmet such as the Burgh Castle example, and the later Saxon Coppergate or Pioneer helmets. And the Benty Grange helmet suggests that spangenhelms were also known. But from a reenactor's viewpoint, going ahead and building something like that is dancing with speculation, which I hate to do! I like basing my work on archeological examples, or decent artwork at least. But there is so little that we can rely on!
Oh, and in my list, "Often" and "Sometimes" are completely variable and debatable, of course!
Matthew
Matthew Amt (Quintus)
Legio XX, USA
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Legio XX, USA
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