Posted on 10/24/2020 2:34:48 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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There's also a little 2-min video at the source.
Lorica Segmentata was centuries ahead of it’s time.
Probably would have been superior to what Western Europe used even in 1000 AD.
This is an amazing find!
For Sale: Used armor, only one owner, slight odor
Yep, very modern look to it. Probably why I like it so much.
He didn't survive for long if he died in his armor and his body was left on the battlefield. The question is why the Germans would have bothered shackling him before killing him. Or perhaps he was wounded, taken prisoner, shackled but then died of his wounds.
>There is extensive corrosion of the mental
That’s not Roman. That’s Democrat.
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BookMark
Just in time for that new Netflix series Barbaren.
Doesn’t make sense. Why would a prisoner be left in armor at all?
Ping
very cool
I’m just trying to imagine the scene here... just one scenario that may or may not have anything to do with reality; I’m NOT a combat vet... So... The battle’s over. You’ve got dead and injured lying all around, friendlies and enemy alike mixed together. You want to secure the battlefield as quickly as possible to prevent someone jumping up and chopping your head off, or worse, your commanding officer’s head off. Removing everybody’s armor is time-consuming. So... just go through and quickly shackle all the enemy, dead or alive. Deal with them later. Only in this guy’s case, later he was dead.
Looks like it became... unhinged.
***Publius Quinctilius Varus blundered into a German ambush that obliterated three full Roman legions plus their auxiliaries.***
“VARUS! GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!”-Augustus
“Lord Augustus each time bawling
As he fetched his head a crack,
‘Varus, Varus, General Varus,
Give me my three Eagles back!’”
“Lord Augustus tore his bedclothes,
Blankets sheet and counterpane,
‘Varus, Varus, General Varus,
Give my Regiments back again!’”—from I CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves.
In the middle ages only higher ranking captives, for whom ransom was expected, were taken alive. The rest were dispatched along with enemy wounded. Dagger through the eye socket or throat did the trick. Coup de Grace or Cut of Grace. At Teutoburg it was even worse for the officers taken alive. They were sacrificed to the Germanic gods in less than quick or pleasant ways. The owner of this armor may have been left in it on an altar as something special for the festivities.
Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
If I lived in Europe I would be out metal detecting constantly, so much potential.
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