The Basic Clothing, Armour, Equipment and Weapons of a Roman Legionary
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- This is a brief overview of the basic clothing, armour, equipment and weapons of a Roman Legionary. This type of video was necessary for our channel to educate everyone on the basics. All photos and videos of soldiers in this video are of members of Legio XIIII Gemina Reenactors group. We pride ourselves in creating all of our own content and credit those who help us. As promised, here is the link to our video dedicated directly to Roman boots • “Ask a Legionary” Sand... . Continuing on we have the video on putting on a Lorica Segmentata • “Ask a Legionary” How ... . Finally, we’ve including the video dedicated to the Roman pila • Ask a Legionary “Roman... . We want to thank all of our members who participated in the videos, provided photos and who make this channel possible. The majority of professional photos taken are by David Burns you can find him on Facebook at groups/21018... and on the web at rdavidburnsphotography.smugmu... Additional photography done by Mark Wedow, you can find him on Facebook at / markwedowphotography
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Watching this right after a week of Army field training is a surprising reminder that the basics of infantry life haven’t really changed much in the past 2,000 years.
5:10 I do believe that’s specifically a Cingulum. Balteum usually refers to the leather baldric strap which the scabbard of the gladius hangs from. The other type of belt you often see on military men is the cintus, which is different from the cingulum because they don’t appear to make use of the balteum straps with the bulla and pensilium decorations, instead often being entirely decked out with the balteum lomnae strap plates.
I beleive subligacula were essential for comfort and cleanliness. You wouldn't want dust from marching in uncomfortable places :-) Also fabric width was limited to @ 3ft due to the limitations of the loom. This would limit the width of the tunica as you wouldn't want seams as they would irritate and are a source of weakness.
1:48 The nails were not for traction. In fact, there are some accounts of being a disadvantage in some scenarios such as on smoothe stone streets. The purpose of the pins were to hold the shoe together/ make them last longer than shoes that do not feature pins.
And they were also for traction
Great work - I really like the variation in armour. It's especially nice seeing Augustan Coolus and Gallic A helmets being used in conjunction with segmentata and mail as they would have been. I think too many groups favour the classic segmentata/gallic look in their impressions.
Contrary to popular opinion, the Coolus helmets were in use well into the late 1st century and most likely into the 2nd.
Mail not Male, but I'm being pedantic. This is an excellent video
You chaps are awesome reenactors. I felt a whole Roman cohort was to descend on me. 👍👊
Thank you for this
Thank you for this it was really well done hope you make some more videos soon.
Excellent
Very nice video, this contains much information.
Why do people dislike videos like these?
Thanks guys, well done !!
Awesome!
Great video Nathan.
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Bravi! Greetings from Italy
Salve!
@@legio14gemina66 Salve!
thx
Interested to know what the ‘puttees’ are too. What was the roman name for these and what are they made of? Are they put on in the same way as more modern puttees?
They were called leg wraps as far as we know. There were two styles, a large pice of cloth wrapped around the leg and tied at both top and bottom and the second style was a long thin piece of cloth wrapped around the leg and folded over in the front with every wrap. There are depictions on 4th century hunting mosaics of how they were worn. Unfortunately CZcams does not allow the posting of pictures in the comments or I’d post one. Hope this helps.
Roman name for it was "Fascia".
How would the axillary learn latin
They would most likely pick up on the drill pretty quickly. They trained, trained and trained.
Thank u
Until 7th century(long after most dominantly latin speaking provincies were lost)Latin was the main language of Roman drills and commands no matter what every single native language was.
They wouldn't be wearing anything with purple. It was very expensive and a sign of nobility.
They would and could wore also purple.Usually just small decorative strips in purple,that was very common-even among civilians.Actual imperial Tyrian purple was very costly but there was also very large and popular market with Tyrian purple cheap imitations.Just like today even at that time common people loved to style themselves as from more luxorious class.The way how this was tolerated or not greatly varied across time.
I like that they don’t wear pants....talk more about that
They did have pants though. :15 in the video there is a guy wearing them. Look like long shorts. Maybe someone can tell us what they were called!
Lies!!!!! Anywho, they are called Braccae and are close fitting and come to just around or below the knee
Braccae as they were called usually came to just below the knee. They were not a standard issue item and therefore were not part of the basic kit but were adopted in the provinces where they were necessary for the climate. They were adopted from locals as far as we know.
@@legio14gemina66 Awesome thanks for that! Wonder if that is the Latin origin of "breeches"
I'm not a historical expert, but shouldn't it be "Legio XIV"?
No, we made a video dedicated to that exact question.
czcams.com/video/pDhxnD3zJ3E/video.html
He really butchered that Latin there