Is it plausible to depict the Segmentata using armor upgrades?

[ljperreira]

Perhaps it is if there is new evidence. I have quickly browsed the link you provided, and as far as I can see this is the only relevant passage (notes and references included):



So the way I see it, the assertion that LS was in use around 9 BC is based on a single publication by the same author. However, I cannot find the publication on the internet or in the my universities library. Can someone with access to this Arma journal check it out?

"Lorica Segmentata, Volume I: A Handbook of Articulated Roman Plate Armour" look under Chapter 4: The Kalkriese Type" page 23, paragraph 3.
"It was only after the initial publication of the Kalkriese breastplate that it became possible to identify similar items from other sites. Moreover, the other loose fittings from the Kalkriese excavations made it possible to isolate a second variant, and again comparison with finds from other sites showed that its components had been known - but not recognised - for some time."
And on para. 4: "The earliest pieces so far identified come from Dangstetten (Germany) and date to around 9 BC (3) and these appear to have been exclusively of type A (with double-riveted buckles attached to leather straps). Other sites with a known Augustan presence - such as Vindonissa (Windisch, Switzerland) and Strasbourg (France) - have produced similar buckles or sub-lobate hinges, whilst fittings belonging to the type B cuirass have even been found in Britain (at Chichester and Waddon Hill), showing that it continued in use until after AD 43."

3. FINGERLIN, 1986, Abbn.268.1, 285.5, 448.1; 1998, Abb.681.2
(Gerhard Fingerlin 1986: Dangstetten I. Katalog der Funde (Fundstelle 1 bis 603), Forschungen und Berichte zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg 22, Stuttgart)

Armamentarium look at Dangstetten (Germany)

According to M. C. Bishop the the assertion that LS was in use around 9 BC is based on archaological evidence.

what reenacting legion are you from? (If you are from one)

A few fellow history nuts and I are just starting Legio XXI Rapax, in central California. Our gear list has been growing pretty quickly and soon we should have enough "Legionaries" to start attending events. Ive also had contact with Legio X Fretensis (in the Bay Area) and Legio IX Hispana (SoCal), but not only are their clubs portraying the British invasion, but their events are a bit out of the way. The going has been a bit slow because two of our full time members are deployed to Iraq......and the others havent gotten their kits together yet. In the mean time ive given a couple of school presentations and I attend Medieval/Celtic fairs in my kit. Ive gotten a lot of positive responses from those I talk to, so this season im going to try to recruit.