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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grainger" data-source="post: 6416005" data-attributes="member: 6779234">Have to disagree about the Segmentata there. It's generally thought that greaves were only worn by Centurions, not normal Legionaries (but see my caveat below about what we really know).I've never heard of pturges in tandem with Segmentata. The legionary's main protection was his large shield (scutum); the segmentata covered his torso, and he didn't normally have armour from the waist down. Unless you mean the "apron" strips worn below the belt? Edit: <a href="http://legionsix.org/equipment/basic-gear/pteruges-and-the-lorica-segmentata/" target="_blank">this article</a> argues that pteruges were not worn with the segmentata during the "classic" Trajan period, but were taken up later; perhaps more as an aesthetic choice.With regard t musculata, Hollywood loves to include lots of leather musculata, but it's generally thought that such armour was made of metal (but some writers do think it was leather). And while we're on the subject of Hollywood - in movies, all Romans wear bracers on their wrists. In real life, no Romans did (unless, perhaps they were archers). They did, however, introduce metal sleeves (a la some types of gladiator armour) for specialist tasks, like fighting the Dacians, whose curved weapons often came over the top of the legionaries' shields and cut off an arm.We don't have much Roman equipment at all, so we're often going on things like Trajan's column which may or may not be accurate (it may be the Romans' equivalent of Hollywood!), and of course being a stone monument missing its original paint doesn't make it easy to determine things like the materials that items were made of.</blockquote>

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