Quote Originally Posted by Foot View Post
Re-reading it, it may mean that they used spears from horseback (which makes sense). The translation appears to give a level of disbelief:

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/4DLi...splayEnglish=1

They are well worth reading, btw.

EDIT: It might be noted that this evidence, if taken singly suggests that british cavalry were numerous but did not fight with javelin and sword.

Foot
This is intriguing... if this is really is a Roman writing about how Britons fight (and it could as easily be a Roman in charge of recruiting British auxilliaries, moaning about how they won't fight as he would like) then Caesar's image of British cavalry as skirmishers is replaced by Britons fighting as light lancers.