Quote Originally Posted by ljperreira View Post
"Lorica Segmentata, Volume I: A Handbook of Articulated Roman Plate Armour" look under Chapter 4: The Kalkriese Type" page 23, paragraph 3.
Blast, I read the chapter but overlooked that bit. Thanks for pointing it out. Good luck with your re-enactment group!

Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
I believe the earliest possible find is 23 BC, the god of Roman Armour, Mike Bishop is very reliable. You'll notice the second volume there is an exhaustive catalogue of finds.
Regardless, it's shoddy stuff and it's not going in because clever legionaries didn't use it.
Could you explain your reasoning?

Quote Originally Posted by anubis88 View Post
I mean LOL! Someone should run a program which would automaticly ban a user that uses the LS word
I am tired of this discussion as well, but punishing people is going a bit far. After all, if even the history channel gets it wrong we cannot expect the average person to know this, and as ljperreira points out, it did exist in EB's time-frame.