Knowledge Commons | Roman military equipment | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/roman-military-equipment/ Activity feed for the group, Roman military equipment. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7031baa7b7efb104963a80be89b80f8c Mike Bishop deposited The Corbridge Hoard revisited in the group Roman military equipment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827252/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:23:42 -0500 This paper uses the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publication of the original report on the Corbridge Hoard, together with the redisplay of the finds in the site museum at Corbridge, to review the findings of the original report. The 'lorica segmentata' armour is considered in the light of more recent finds from Carlisle (UK), Stillfried…[Read more]

]]> 0 82a3f6e37987b3b747a53f10d972522d Mike Bishop deposited Trapp’d in silver: Roman cavalry equipment revisited in the group Roman military equipment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827250/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:23:41 -0500 At the Fourth Roman Military Equipment Conference in Newcastle in 1987, I first explored the reconstruction of Roman cavalry harness, attempting to harmonise the evidence from sculptural representations and archaeological excavation. Much has been learned since then, and this paper attempts to review how some of the principles expounded back then…[Read more]

]]> 0 20a8f7a0c2cba64fd0e6eac6ce5d09b1 Mike Bishop deposited Pimp my ride: early Imperial cavalry, saddle plates, and long-reining in the group Roman military equipment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827248/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:23:40 -0500 A select group of 1st-century AD 'Totenmahl' tombstones shows Roman auxiliary cavalry horses being long-reined. These same stones also provide the main sculptural evidence for the use of saddle plates. This paper begins by examining one set of privately owned horse harness and then broadens its focus to consider the wider implications of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae98d6112032c42df88ee74d9764b979 Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Peer Reviewers in the discussion Roman military equipment https://hcommons.org/groups/roman-military-equipment/forum/topic/call-for-peer-reviewers-15/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:06:36 -0400 The History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.

]]> 47d45f6f116140a036ac531ff18c5ba3 M. C. Bishop deposited The Newstead 'lorica segmentata' in the group Roman military equipment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605162/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 04:13:17 -0400 Description and discussion of the 'lorica segmentata' fragments from the Roman for of Newstead, Scottish Borders (UK).

]]> 0 4308095d35f7c5b8c81468a60b62bb87 M. C. Bishop deposited The early imperial 'apron' in the group Roman military equipment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601981/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 04:12:25 -0500 Discussion of the evidence for and the purpose of the item of Roman infantry equipment colloquially known as the 'apron'.

]]> 0 be486a9bc79fee4fdf4f7d28331ca2bf M. C. Bishop deposited Cavalry equipment of the Roman army in the first century A.D. in the group Roman military equipment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597953/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 04:24:07 -0500 in J.C. Coulston (ed.) Military Equipment and the Identity of Roman Soldiers. Proceedings of the Fourth Roman Military Equipment Conference, BAR International Series 394, Oxford (1988), 67-195

]]> 0 42e099e7ec108a616f0a26ccd1b69e6c Mike Bishop created the group Roman military equipment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597796/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:50:05 -0500 0