Roman Military Equipment
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Sort-of-official BlueSky account for Roman Military Equipment (no longer just from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome) by M C Bishop & J C N Coulston Website: https://romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk
Here's an anonymous contribution to #TombstoneTuesday from Bonn (DEU). He's wearing a toga and almost certainly a soldier, given the shields frieze at the top of the stone. Similar stones (like that of P. Clodius) indicate that the inscription was on a separate (now missing) block.
You find military equipment in the strangest places. This armour fastener, belt plate, and buckle came from a cave near Buxton (GBR) in the Peak (currently 'Peaq', thanks to Skoda!) District.
Archaeologists discovered a Roman military camp from the final battle of the indigenous Iberian Ceretani revolt at Collet de Jovell in the eastern Pyrenees Mountains of Catalonia. The artifacts found link it to the final suppression of the Ceretani in 39 BC 📷AUB www.uab.cat/web/newsroom...
The Hallaton helmet, a #Roman cavalry helmet from the C1st AD. It is a very ornate piece, originally covered in silver sheet & gold leaf, with a female goddess on the brow guard; it is one of the earlist known Roman helmets from Roman Britain... #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology
Here's Peter sitting on his saddle during its very first trials in June 1988.
Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · last wk.The talented illustrator / scholar Peter Connolly is remembered for his reconstructions of ancient armies But did you know that he frequently managed to get himself in the picture? Usually as an Iron Age chieftain, king or druid 😆👍 #FindingConnolly #Archaeology #HillfortsWednesday #AncientBlueSky
For those who don't know, AKG handle his image rights and you can search from their Connolly page (follow the link to database near the bottom) to see the range of his work. blog.akg-images.com/mailout/1208...
akg-images | Peter Connolly
We are incredibly honoured to represent Peter's wonderful archive of imagery. We present a selection of favourites.
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Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · last wk.Ah yes, have seen this and wondered where it was from 👍 Great shame the book never happened 🙁
Definitely Connolloid. If only his Julius Caesar volume had come to fruition ...
Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · last wk.An undeniably dramatic (if archaeologically unproveable) depiction of a full-scale Iron Age attack on the east gate of Danebury hillfort #Hampshire We love the Iceni-style carnyx and boar standard 🤩 © Peter Connolly 1977 (from *The Celts* - MacDonald's Peoples of the Past) #HillfortsWednesday
Even though there is no such thing as #CoffinLidMonday, we have added the Cefn on Rudry lead coffin lid, with its surprising little #RomanCavalry rider, to our 2D iconography Gallery. romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/galleries-of...
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Zoom in on Roman Finds: Hadrian’s Wall & Beyond – Roman Finds Group
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@romanfindsgroup.bsky.social · 2w agoSave the Date! Zoom in on Roman Finds! Hadrian's Wall and Beyond. This Member's Only seminar will be on 29th Sept 2026 7pm - 8.15pm. Online Only - Booking opens soon
Even though there is no such thing as #CoffinLidMonday, we have added the Cefn on Rudry lead coffin lid, with its surprising little #RomanCavalry rider, to our 2D iconography Gallery. romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/galleries-of...
New evidence redraws Roman conquest's final conflict in ancient Catalonia phys.org/news/2026-07...
New evidence redraws Roman conquest's final conflict in ancient Catalonia
Researchers from the UAB have found the remains of a Roman camp linked to the suppression of the Ceretani revolt that took place in Cerdanya in 39 BCE. The research, based on archaeological surveys an...
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These include a probable soldier, wearing a paenula, with a weighted pilum.
Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave')@profyarrow.bsky.social · 2w agoMost of us know the tavern scene frescoes Pompeii (VI 14 35-36) because they were cut out and sent to MANN BUT thanks to Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR we now have many pictures of the very similar set still in situ (VI.10.1/19) pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...
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Roman Military Camp Found with Soldiers in Pits and Armor Left Behind in Slovakia | Arkeonews arkeonews.net/roman-milita...
Roman Military Camp Found with Soldiers in Pits and Armor Left Behind in Slovakia | Arkeonews
Archaeologists in Slovakia uncovered a Roman camp from Marcus Aurelius’ wars, with soldiers’ remains, armor, weapons and five fortified
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A rare Roman Empire exhibition is now open at Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum - Toronto Life torontolife.com/culture/bata...
A rare Roman Empire exhibition is now open at Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum - Toronto Life
For the first time in North America, Unearthing Vindolanda brings 2,000-year-old ancient artifacts and immersive programming to the city
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Etruscan mirror with a warrior clearly wearing some form of Montefortino helmet, with strange lobed and scalloped cheekpieces and a neck guard. Any thoughts @nakhthor.bsky.social @profpaulj.bsky.social @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social ?
There’s an article by Stefan Burmeister, 'The earliest segmentata - The prototype plate armour from Kalkriese', in the latest issue of Ancient Warfare 107, www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-us/produc...
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Not sure what has triggered this popping up again, but here's the Kalkriese lorica segmentata revisited. There will be a paper by Stefan Burmeister on it in the proceedings of ROMEC XXI (which should be out in October). arkeonews.net/worlds-oldes...
World’s Oldest Nearly Complete Roman Armor May Preserve the Fate of a Captured Legionary | Arkeonews
The world’s oldest nearly complete Roman segmental armor, found at Kalkriese with a prisoner restraint, may preserve the fate of a captured
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Four years ago today! Nearly 100°F, not a cloud in the sky, and I spent the day searching all over Ostia for this stone ram. Of course, it turned out to be tucked away in a back corner. This was during the AAR Classical Summer School, and it was definitely worth the hunt.
Thomas Fischer's Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Frontier of the Roman Province of Raetia is available as an Open Access download from @archaeopress.bsky.social and includes (unsurprisingly for Tom!) some well-known military equipment. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
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What is the long-term legacy of foreign excavations in places like Dura-Europos in Syria? Out today and open access in @antiquity.ac.uk with my colleague Adnan Almohamad: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria
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Revised Ampurias catapult drawing, now bulging in all the right places.
JCNC died two years ago today. You can find a brief bio for him (with a link to download my more detailed obituary from JRMES) here: romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/home-page/ab...
Footwear has now been added to our Glossary page. romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/glossary#Foo...
Glossary – Roman Military Equipment
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What do we know about Roman soldier’s shoes? Apologies if I missed it on your website - I didn’t notice any info on the glossary during a quick skim of the glossary.
CALL FOR PAPERS – RFG Autumn online Conference 2026 'Recent Finds and Research from Sites across the Roman Empire' - Fri 6th Nov focusing on material culture from sites outside the UK. If you're interested in presenting, please contact: Rachel Frame and Nat Harlow at rfgconferences@gmail.com.
Some #RomanCavalry bling (with added eagles).
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · last mo.#FindsFriday! A richly decorated #Roman cavalry battle helmet, found in Theilenhofen at the Upper German-Raetian Limes. Dating to the second half of the 2nd century AD. On display Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg 📷 me
For all your Roman military equipment terminological needs (if you want to venture beyond 'pointy end' and 'blunt end'), try our Glossary page: romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/glossary
Glossary – Roman Military Equipment
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Found in Strasbourg (FRA), this stone commemorates Comnis (or Comnisca), an eques in the #RomanCavalry serving in the turma of Celta in ala Indiana who lived to 25, only serving for 7 years. His unit later served in Britain (and was based at Cirencester). #TombstoneTuesday
