Cefn On (Glamorgan) lead coffin ?lid depicting a Roman cavalryman riding right to left with a hexagonal shield. Image: Anon
Something unusual for #StDavidsDay? A lead coffin ?lid found at Cefn On(n) farm near Caerphilly in 1952 with a depiction of a mounted, plumed #RomanCavalry rider (unusually from his left, shielded side) clutching what was thought to be a vexillum (unhelpfully, partially obliterated by plough marks).
We don't even know what that mask (sans helmet) was doing there under the collapsed embankment; it could have been in the looted baggage. Cataphracts and clibanariii are irrelevant to the early Principate #RomanCavalry (the time of Kalkriese) and masks definitely hinder riders' field of view ...
You can always rely on #RomanCavalry equipment for a bit of bling.
Monochrome drawings of the Crosby Garrett Helmet from the sides (top left and right), back and front (bottom left and right). Image: MCB
Colou drawings of the Crosby Garrett Helmet from the sides (top left and right), back and front (bottom left and right). Image: MCB
Knowing Me, Knowing You. #CrosbyGarrettHelmet #RomanCavalry #B&C3
The stats from Bad Cannstatt will be useful for students of #RomanCavalry, but no related artefacts were found (unlike the mass horse burials at Krefeld-Gellep).
Published today, with quite a bit about #RomanCavalry equipment in it (and how it was used). www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/roman-cav...
The keen-eyed will be able to spot the pieces of #RomanCavalry equipment.
Showing off the four-horned saddle rather nicely. #RomanCavalry
Arguably the best of the #RomanCavalry Rhineland tombstones. His equipment and the horse's harness are extremely accurately depicted. A fine contender for #TombstoneTuesday.
Copper alloy belt plate with hinge for a buckle from the Carlisle Millennium excavations. Divided into three designs, two with one kind of enamel inlay flanking a central one of three sets of three opposing leaves with a different colour of inlay. Image: MCB
Copper-alloy inlaid buckle plate, possibly from a cavalry belt, found at Manchester. Divided into three designs, two flanking a central one of three sets of three opposing leaves. Image: Ross Cowan (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Enamel-inlaid copper-alloy buckle plates from Staxton (left) and Corbridge (right). Image: MCB
There is a type of Roman military equipment that is unique to Britain, and it comprises these enamel-inlaid hinged copper-alloy buckle plates, imitating earlier (pre-Flavian) niello-inlaid belt plates. Always a buckle plate, they probably come from #RomanCavalry belts. #FindsFriday
Curiously, not much about #RomanCavalry, but of interest nonetheless, after a quick flick through (if you can flick through a PDF 🤔).
Blink and you'll miss MCB burbling about #RomanCavalry in this (he usually refuses to do TV).
Replica of a Roman chamfron and the real artefact (horse armour mask made of leather and metal)
Replica of a Roman chamfron and the real artefact (horse armour mask made of leather and metal)
A replica #Roman #Chamfron -on display at Trimontium- based on one found at the fort -on display at National Museums Scotland- also pictured & used by the #RomanCavalry. A rare example as it was deposited into one of the wells at the fort intact, allowing to present an accurate reconstruction.🐴
Pseudo-Attic Guisborough-type #RomanCavalry brass helmet from the River Wensum at Worthing (Norfolk, UK). Image: Norfolk Museums Service
Pseudo-Corinthian Heddernheim-type #RomanCavalry brass helmet visor from the River Wensum at Worthing (Norfolk, UK). Image: Norfolk Museums Service
The #RomanCavalry helmet and visor from the Wensum at Worthing in Norfolk (GBR) are intriguing. Fischer's classification suggest these are a pseudo-Attic helmet (Guisborough type) and a pseudo-Corinthian visor (Heddernheim type). tinyurl.com/y6pntxh2
Fragment of a Roman cavalry tombstone from Cirencester showing a hand holding part of a shafted weapon and the cuff of a long-sleeved tunic folded back on itself. Image: MCB
Wait, it's #TombstoneTuesday? Here's a small piece of a #RomanCavalry monument from Cirencester showing the right hand of a cavalryman, holding a spear shaft, with the cuff of his long-sleeved tunic turned back on itself.
Fragmentary relief of an unknown Roman cavalryman wielding a spear in his right hand and a possible oval shield in his left from Strasbourg (FR). A typical cavalry waist belt with sword suspension straps is visible. A calo stands behind the rear end of the horse. Image: Carole Raddato (CC BY-SA 2.0)
An incomplete #RomanCavalry #TombstoneTuesday candidate, lacking its inscription, from Strasbourg (FRA). The lozenge-shaped cavesson/psalion/hackamore (or whatever we're calling them this week) is particularly noticeable, as is the typical cavalry sword suspension and part of his oval shield.
Screenshot of text of article on the Roman cavalry Turma! event at Carlisle in 2017.
Some modern riders really like them, but there is a measure of dispute over the precise nature of the reconstruction. This article about the 2017 #RomanCavalry reconstruction event at Carlisle includes interviews with the riders: tinyurl.com/2bk5vw8z
Copper-alloy greaves from Straubing (DEU) used in the hippika gymnasia depicting (on the hinged knee plates) Minerva and on the shin guard portion Hercules (on the left) and Mars (on the right). Both carry ownership inscriptions of Lucanus in the turma of Modenus and there are traces of silvering (or tinning?) and gilding. Image: Wolfgang Sauber (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Copper-alloy greaves from Straubing (DEU) used in the hippika gymnasia depicting (on the hinged knee plates) Minerva and on the shin guard portion dolphins (on the left). Image: Wolfgang Sauber (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Copper-alloy greave from Straubing (DEU) used in the hippika gymnasia depicting (on the hinged knee plate) Minerva and on the shin guard portion opposing busts of Attis. Image: Wolfgang Sauber (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Copper-alloy greave from Straubing (DEU) used in the hippika gymnasia depicting (on the hinged knee plate) ?Minerva and on the shin guard portion a depiction of Mars in armour. Image: Wolfgang Sauber (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Bending a (hinged) knee to #ReliefWednesday, these are #RomanCavalry 'sports' #greaves from Straubing (DEU), depicting images of Hercules, Mars, and Minerva in relief. All bear traces of 'silvering' (?tinning) and in some instances gilding.
Detail of the tombstone of the mounted archer Acrabanis of the ala Augusta Ituaraiorum shooting arrows at a target whilst galloping. Image: G. Garitan (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The tombstone of the mounted archer Acrabanis of the ala Augusta Ituaraiorum showing him as a bust and below galloping left to right whilst shooting arrows at a target. Image: G. Garitan (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Since it's #TombstoneTuesday, let's admire Acrabanis of the #RomanCavalry unit ala Augusta Ituraeorum shooting arrows on the move at a target.
Want to play with a 3D #RomanCavalry face mask from Echzell (DEU)? Of course you do. Scroll down to find it & click on the four-arrow cross for a full-screen model. alm-hessen.de/en/mediathek...
Copper-alloy pseudo-Attic cavalry battle helmet from Guisborough (GBR). The cheek pieces are missing. Image: © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Copper-alloy pseudo-Attic cavalry battle helmet from Chalon-sur-Saône (FRA). The cheek pieces are missing. Image: Cangadoba (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Crested pseudo-Attic helmet of brass from Worthing, Norfolk (GBR) Image: Norwich Castle Museum (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Copper-alloy pseudo-Attic cavalry battle helmet from Theilenhofen (DEU). The cheek pieces are embossed with eagles with wreaths in their beaks. Image: Pirkheimer (CC BY-SA 3.0)
It's #FindsFriday and here are some 2nd-century pseudo-Attic #RomanCavalry battle helmets. These were the successors to the Weyler helmets of the 1st century AD. All images are already in our Galleries.
A short video about the original Weyler (aka Weiler) #RomanCavalry helmet. The place is Weyler (in the province of Luxembourg, somewhat confusingly) in Belgium, but like Köln/Cologne and Mainz/Mayence is called different things in different languages. www.tvlux.be/video/info/a...
Nice to see some new stuff from the Przeworsk Culture, but it is difficult to shake that ' #spatha used by #RomanCavalry ' thing (particularly since, by the 3rd/4th century, everybody was waving them around).
Apparently it took 2kg (synthetic) wax to cast a functional replica of the Xanten harness fittings for one #RomanCavalry horse, so an ala quingenaria would take 0.96 tonnes of wax for their fittings ... again, assuming no reuse of wax (which there was with the Xanten project). #nerdstat
This easily beats the 17kg pppd (poo produced per day) #nerdstat for #RomanCavalry horses ... but begs the stat for the amount of beeswax to cast the harness fittings for an ala ... resist, resist! 😬
A nice example of telling us two things: what the British cavalry didn't do (use swords or throw javelins from on horseback) and, by inference, what #RomanCavalry did do (use swords and throw javelins from on horseback)!
Tombstone of Cantaber from AuhV 5 showing it before the rear end of the horse was destroyed in World War 2. Image: AuhV5
Cantaber's tombstone in 1982 showing the extent of the damage to the back end of his horse. Image: MCB
For #ReliefWednesday here's an interesting image from AuhV (see our other post) of Cantaber's #RomanCavalry tombstone from before his horse's backside was blown off (titter ye not, Brits!) during WW2. One of the few cavalry tombstones depicting ring junctions.
Here's a 3D scan of a #RomanCavalry battle helmet, halfway between true Weyler and pseudo-Attic types. Three views of an eagle (front & both sides) for aquilophiles (not a word, but it ought to be) plus a gorgon & snakes thrown in for good measure. skfb.ly/oqXKQ
By a strange coincidence, a leather #RomanCavalry chamfron from Caerleon was apparently covered in circular studs arranged like this.
Left side view of the distorted copper-alloy bowl from a cavalry battle helmet (Helmet B) found at Tell Oum Hauran between Nawa and Jasim (SYR). It is decorated with embossed relief designs. Image: JCNC
Rear view of the distorted copper-alloy bowl from a cavalry battle helmet (Helmet B) found at Tell Oum Hauran between Nawa and Jasim (SYR). It is decorated with embossed relief designs. Image: JCNC
Rolled-out design from a cavalry battle helmet (Helmet B) found at Tell Oum Hauran between Nawa and Jasim (SYR). It depicts outnumbered Roman legionaries (and a cavalryman) in action against oriental (?Parthian) warriors. Image: MCB after Abdul-Hak
Something slightly squashed for #ReliefWednesday in the form of one of the Nawa #RomanCavalry helmets depicting Roman legionaries in action, probably 2nd century AD. Found at Tell Oum Hauran (SYR).
