Quote Originally Posted by Plebian#10
I watched a show on the History channel that depicted the toughness of this type of armor. This armor type was typically worn over top of a layer of chain mail and padding. A lot of time was spent on how the armor was fashioned and assembled but at the end they did a bunch of field tests firing a period ballista at the armor from about 50 feet away and although a human would most likely be knocked down and hurt the armor actually prevented a piercing type wound quite effectively. I would guess that they fired approximately 5 bolts of different sizes and point types and none of them actually pierced the padding. It was a real eye opener on the effectiveness of lorica segmentata against a piercing type wound but I wonder how effective it would be against a slashing or crushing type of attack. Any thoughts?
So you`re saying that the Segmentata was worn over a Hamata coat (along with padding)??

Hummm, interesting...

BTW, it`s a good idea to incluide the Segmentata issue on the F.A.Q. Thus, instead of writing endless posts answering the question, we can just send them to FAQ.

Cheers!!!