I've finally realised it, you really do not believe a word your saying do you. Either that or your so deluded that you refuse to see reality for what it truely is. The reason why Dixon and Southern do not mention leather armour is because like 99.9% of all historians, they do not believe it existed. I think Graham Sumner is one of the few scholar's who believes it could have existed and I agree with him. But he also agrees with other historians that Late Roman infantry also wore mail armour, scale armour and I have believe he feels they also wore metal muscle cuirasses.
I also believe you only choose to read what suits your paradigm, because I informed you in an earlier post that Phil Barker has conceded, rather reluctantly, that Late Roman infantry wore mail armour. This is a copy of a post Phil made to one of my requests on another forum-
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Subject: [DBMMlist] Re: Roman Equipment Books
> All books have problems, the Osprey ones often show cavalry with shields
> that have infantry shield designs on them, they still show Roman
> Catafractarii with shields etd.
>
> Phil, your going to have to do some updating of 'Armies and Enemies of
> Imperial Rome', especially for the Late Romans (will you now include Late
> Roman Legionarii and auxilia in mail hauberks? And will you be getting rid
> of the Late Roman Clibanarii drawing showing the horse in half armour, and
> agreeing that Late Roman Catafractarii and Clibanarii were one and the
> same animal?)
I agree that (as the army lists say) LR cataphracti and clibanarii were
identical. No late Roman 1/2 armoured horse is illustrated in the 1981
editon, only Byzantine and Sassanid. I also agree that some legionaries may
have worn mail, but not that the muscled corslets on monuments represent
mail. I know of no evidence that LR auxiliary infantry wore mail.
Phil
Wed May 19, 2010 11:23 am
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