"Laxate otiose!" The men of The Ermine Street Guard stand at ease.
For #RomanFortThursday. #AncientBluesky.
There's a few of these little chaps in the forthcoming catalogue of London militaria.
My Billies/Billys developed sag under all those A4 archaeological monographs (and JRMES!) so when I moved back to Scotland I sacrificed one (ritual, innit?) to reinforce the others with central bracing. Did the trick.
This is rather interesting: some new thoughts on how Newstead-type lorica segmentata were fastened. www.academia.edu/168640533/Ty...
Same for both Coulston and me. I've tried citation software a few times but, like automated indexing, never found it worth the effort. Every note and bibliography entry in B&C3 is done the old-fashioned way and that is my/our most efficient way of working.
This was the first of two Osprey blogs on Roman helmets, in this case dealing with the PBI.
And this is the second of the two Roman helmets blogs for Osprey, this time dealing with the cavalry.
The Newstead type lorica segmentata represents one of the lesser understood forms of Roman segmented armour. Despite more than a century of research, the method of fastening, particularly the closure ...
The nice thing about Billy bookcases is there are lots of examples of mods to reinforce them because they’re so ubiquitous. This is one example: youtu.be/u_caV1-mj_o?...
Lovely little #FindsFriday from the Roman Army Museum at Magna Fort on #hadrianswall. A brass cavalry harness brooch dated to AD40-125. Beautiful shine & detail. Style points to the cavalry!
#romanbritain #romanmilitary #archaeology
"Both copper alloy (bronze in the Republican period, brass in the Principate) and mild steel were used to make infantry helmets."
New blog post: ROMAN INFANTRY HELMETS by M.C. Bishop
You can read more on the blog: https://bit.ly/4qBa2Yj
#Rome #RomanEmpire #History
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New blog post: ROMAN CAVALRY HELMETS by M. C. Bishop.
"An important change came with the arrival of Augustus as the first princeps, with cavalrymen beginning to modify infantry helmets."
Image: The Peel/Deurne Dominate helmet
Read more here: https://bit.ly/4o9N7mw
My book manuscript has a hair over 2,200 footnotes and I typed them all manually so that each and every typo is handcrafted, artisanally, for your annoyance.
Is this the best way to do it? No, obviously.
But it is my way, and I am stubborn and refuse to change.
Construction in Germany Revealed the 'Princely Grave' of a Celtic Warrior Who Was Buried With Weapons and a Two-Wheeled Wagon
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
Archaeologists say the find proves "the previously only assumed presence of a local Celtic elite." Grave goods also included gold jewelry and a jug imported from modern-day Tuscany
