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<blockquote data-quote="Thorvald Kviksverd" data-source="post: 192974" data-attributes="member: 1495">In addition to John Warry's text, two books that I can't recommend highly enough if you're interested in the period...Peter Connolly's Greece and Rome at War--similar to Warry's, but with greater detail.Brassey's Roman Army, Wars of the Empire by Graham Sumner--makes use of color photographs of re-enactors, rather than the usual drawings. It really helps to visualize the period.Anyway, here are a few bits of trivia (all values are approx/best guesses)...The heavy oval scutum of the early republic:1.28m x 63.5cm1cm at edge to 1.2cm at center10kgVery heavy. Probably used with straight arm in charge, then rested on ground to fight.By way of comparison, the shield used by the La Tene culture (Celts) was about 1.1m and 6.7kg.The later rectangular scutum of the empire:Shortened by straightening (&quot;cutting off&quot;)&nbsp; the top and bottom edges.6mm thick at edge gives weight of 5.5kgIf thickened to 1cm at center, weight rises to 7.5kgLorica Hamata (mail shirt): 15kgLorica Segmentata: 9kgBy way of comparison, the knee length/hooded scale hauberk of a cataphractus has been estimated to weigh somewhere between 25-30kg.Hope some of that is interesting/illuminating <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thorvald Kviksverd, post: 192974, member: 1495"] In addition to John Warry's text, two books that I can't recommend highly enough if you're interested in the period... Peter Connolly's [i]Greece and Rome at War[/i]--similar to Warry's, but with greater detail. Brassey's [i]Roman Army, Wars of the Empire[/i] by Graham Sumner--makes use of color photographs of re-enactors, rather than the usual drawings. It really helps to visualize the period. Anyway, here are a few bits of trivia (all values are approx/best guesses)... [b]The heavy oval [i]scutum[/i] of the early republic:[/b] 1.28m x 63.5cm 1cm at edge to 1.2cm at center 10kg Very heavy. Probably used with straight arm in charge, then rested on ground to fight. By way of comparison, the shield used by the [i]La Tene[/i] culture (Celts) was about 1.1m and 6.7kg. [b]The later rectangular [i]scutum[/i] of the empire:[/b] Shortened by straightening ("cutting off") the top and bottom edges. 6mm thick at edge gives weight of 5.5kg If thickened to 1cm at center, weight rises to 7.5kg [b][i]Lorica Hamata[/i] (mail shirt):[/b] 15kg [b][i]Lorica Segmentata[/i]:[/b] 9kg By way of comparison, the knee length/hooded scale hauberk of a [i]cataphractus[/i] has been estimated to weigh somewhere between 25-30kg. Hope some of that is interesting/illuminating :) [/QUOTE]

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