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	Legion XXIV - Lorica Armor Page
		Note the leather subarmalis worn under the lorica to cushion the shoulders and keep perspiration from reaching the lorica to rust it and then bleeding back to stain his tunic.
		An example of "lorica hamata" or "mail" or to use the french pronunciation, "maille" created by Jeffrey Crean of Souderton PA. It is composed of 12,000 punched "washer-like" rings and a similar number of "butted" wire rings.
		A reconstruction of an arm Manica or "Arm Lorica" by Mathew Amt of Legio XX in College Park, MD. For comfort, it is lined with leather; which is fastened to the plates with leather thongs and secured around the arm with four or five leather straps with buckles.
	www.legionxxiv.org /loricapage (1826 words)

	Legio IX Hispana Website (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lorica Hamata is Latin for a type of armor made up of interlinked rings, also known as mail (or, inaccurately as chainmail).
		Lorica Hamata was a standard armor of the Roman Military from the early Republic until the fall of the Empire.
		Lorica Hamata produced and used in the Empire seemed to be shorter than what was made and used in the Republic.
	www.legio-ix-hispana.org /hamata.html (1897 words)

	Lorica segmentata
		The lorica segmentata was a type of armour primarily used in the Roman Empire, exploiting Hellenistic Greek technology, but the Latin name was first used in the 16th century (the ancient form is unknown).
		Auxiliary forces would more commonly used the Lorica Hamata which is mail (frequently called chainmail) or scale armour.
		It fell out of use during the 3rd century A.D., but similar armouring techniques were used during the 16th century, employing sliding rivets[?] and this was known as Anima.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lo/Lorica_segmentata.html (226 words)

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		Mail was the standard armor before the introduction of the lorica segmentata, and it continued in use among auxiliaries and legionaries throughout the Imperial period.
		It is not known what the ratio of hamata to segmentata might have been in the legions during the mid-first century, but a minority of mailshirts in the ranks is certainly acceptable.
		"Lorica" is Latin for "armor"; "segmentata" is a modern term applied to the classic Roman iron cuirass of bands or hoops, introduced by the early 1st Century AD.
	www.geocities.com /legio_vi/page6.html (541 words)

	RomanDanes
		Lorica Segmentata blev brugt frem til slutningen af 2 århundrede.
		The Roman Lorica Segmentata was in all perspectives a Poineering Invention.
		Lorica Segmentata was made of a “soft” ironplate, wich could absorb hits and blows were the mail gave no protection.
	romandanes.blogspot.com (3378 words)

	Lorica hamata - NovaRoma
		Mail was the standard armor before the introduction of the lorica segmentata, and it continued in use among auxiliaries and legionaries throughout the Imperial period.
		It is not known what the ratio of hamata to segmentata might have been in the legions during the mid-first century, but a minority of mailshirts in the ranks is certainly acceptable.
		Mail was also worn by standard-bearers, musicians, and centurions, and of course by auxiliary troops.
	www.novaroma.org /nr/Lorica_hamata (408 words)

	TherionArms - Roman lorica segmentata (Newstead style) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The lorica segmentata is believed to have been introduced in the ranks of the Roman Army during the first century A.D., and was widely used at the height of the Roman Empire.
		Although it never completely replaced the maille (lorica hamata) or scale (lorica squamata) armors, the lorica segmentata typifies the modern view of the Roman soldier.
		It is closely copied from a lorica found in Newstead, Scotland, which dates from the second century A.D. This armor is quite flexible and allows plenty of freedom of movement.
	therionarms.com /reenact/therionarms_c744.html (102 words)

	Crazy Ideas - SCC Forums (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lorica segmentata was not abandoned because it was so inflexible, because it really wasn't more inflexible than a medieval chest plate.
		Lorica segmentata was much more expensive because it required a (very) experienced smith and very good facilities, while hamata could be almost made by any slave.
		Lorica segmentata was inflexible compared to the chain mail, but it wasn't so inflexible that it couldn't be used, in fact, the lorica segmentata was still used by some (elite, I guess) troops.
	www.stratcommandcenter.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=11735&st=20 (4343 words)

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		Lorica Hamata is very labour intensive to produce taking up to 180 man hours to make a mail shirt from 22,000 ¼ inch individual rings, the weight (15 lb approximately) being carried upon the shoulders and supported by the singulum militare belt.
		The alternative armour, Lorica Segmentata, made from iron plate was believed to have appeared on the scene shortly after the loss of Varu’s three legions near the Rhine during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius in 9 AD, a total of 20,000 men.
		This Legionary is equipped with the Corbridge “A” Lorica Segmentata armour, typified by bronze hinges and leather straps connecting the shoulder plates to the chest girdle.
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		Lorica Hamata Chain mail that was used throughout Roman history and well after its fall.
		The lorica segmentata that I am customizing is known (to Roman researchers and experts) as the Lorica Segmentata Newstead, named after the remains of actual 1/1 segmented body armor found in an ancient Roman fort in Newstead.
		True, Lorica Segmentata in ancient times were found tinned or silvered (but that does not mean all of them were) but even so, units equipped with such and stationed in the far flung regions of the empire could not possible be expected to go into battle all shiny, bright and glittery.
	www.ransomechua.com /Pages/roman.html (1894 words)

	BODY ARMOR
		The armor is made of rectangular or polygonal plates of iron (mild steel in most modern reconstructions) bent to conform to the shape of the body and held together on the inside by a skeleton of leather straps riveted to the plates.
		By the second century AD, the lorica segementata was in widespread use throughout the Roman legions; however, mail seems to have remained the most common form of body armor for specialist troops such as standard bearers (signifiers, imagnifers, aquilifers), musicians, and centurions.
		Lorica segmentata, hamata, and squamata were worn with an arming vest featuring padded shoulders, which helped distribute the weight of the armor.
	www.legionsix.org /body_armor.htm (2989 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.02.49
		Lorica segmentata (the term is modern) was an articulated armour of iron plates and hoops.
		However, the use of lorica segmentata was never as total as these monuments would suggest: ring mail was the most common armour in the Roman world for all categories of troops.
		The two basic types of lorica segmentata were the Corbridge type, in use until the early second century, and the more robust Newstead variety, introduced late in the first century and still in limited use in the mid-third century.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-02-49.html (1243 words)

	Lorica squamata at AllExperts
		The Lorica squamata is a type of scale armour used by ancient Roman military during the Roman Republic and at later periods.
		A shirt of scale armour was shaped in the same way as a lorica hamata, mid-thigh length with the shoulder doublings or cape.
		The type of armour in which the scales are laced to each other and need no backing at all is known as lamellar armour, while to confuse the matter there is also locking scale in which the scales are wired together without a backing.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/lo/lorica_squamata.htm (613 words)

	SCC Forums > BI. Wht happend to the Roman Legions? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, the lorica segmentata was far more protective than the mail, and because of that it was given to the legionaries who were the more expensive citizen troops.
		I was told that the legions began to make the lorica after 9 ad after the disaster in the tutoberg forest because it was cheaper and easier to make and rome was in desperte need for new soilders all of a sudden.
		Lorica plumata: we think they meant scales on mail, or scales attached to each other and not to a fabric/leather backing.
	www.stratcommandcenter.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t12483-50.html (2425 words)

	RedRampant.com
		Ring Mail: In latin, Lorica Hamata, (Loricae Hamatae plural form) translates as "hook armor," referring to the hook which fastened the shoulder straps.
		Scale Armor: Called Lorica Squamata, (Loricae Squamatae plural form) Literally translates as "scale armor." This armor consisted of row upon row of overlaping bronze or iron scales, which resembeled a coat of feathers when completed.
		Lorica Plumata, "feather armor," was an expensive variant of scale armor.
	www.redrampant.com /roma/armor.html (951 words)

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		Metal plates were held together by leather straps on the interior and on the exterior by straps and buckles or by hooks.
		Lorica squamata also came to be used mainly in the 1st and 2nd centuries.
		Lorica segmentata may not have been used, but lorica hamata and lorica squamata are known, as well as heavily armored cavalry.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAR0264 (1455 words)

	Lorica Segmentata Roman Armor - Background and Ordering
		The lorica segmentata was a type of armor used primarily in the Roman Empire at the end of the 1st century B.C. and continuing until the middle of the 3rd century A.D. The first reconcilable fragments of the lorica segmentata were discovered at Bad Deutch Altenburg in Austria (the legionary base of Carnuntum) in 1899.
		However, it wasn't until the discovery of the Corbridge Hoard-a wooden box containing 12 sections (six shoulder and six torso, none of them matching) at Corbridge in 1964 that it was possible to interpret it without the help of sculptural evidence.
		This new armor was generally considered to be superior to the lorica hamata because of it's greater flexibility, lighter weight, and its comparative ease to manufacture.
	www.swordsandarmor.com /lorica-segmentata-roman-armor.htm (600 words)

	Helping to build a better Lorica Musculata since MMIV
		In either case, in the republican hamata the shoulder pieces are needed for protection, by the time of the empire they become largely vestigial and by the high point of the empire we even see the shoulder yoke abandoned entirely, as the Romans developed maille shirts with complete shoulders.
		If the republican hamata were laid out flat on the ground, I imagine it would look very much like the linothorax with a cylinder for the body that was closed on one side, and a yoke that covers the shoulders.
		On the breastplate of the Primaporta Augustus for example, the Roman officer receiving the standard from the barbarian is wearing a lorica with a straight waistline and the two layers of pteruges.
	astro.temple.edu /~tlclark/lorica/origins.htm (7757 words)

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		The invention of ring armor like the lorica hamata is often given to the Celts who fought against the Romans.
		The lorica hamata was used until just prior to the revolt of Israel against the Romans, at which point it was replaced by the Lorica Segmentata(plate armor).
		The lorica hamata is perhaps the best area protection available in Midlight, it protects from the chest down to partial coverage of the thighs.
	www.angelfire.com /il2/annatar/lhamata.html (302 words)

	The Bengal Club: Roman I
		He wears the lorica hamata and a standard helmet with a bearskin hood tied over it.
		This figure is no longer wearing the lorica hamata (chain mail shirt), but rather the "lorica segmentata" (segmented breastplate) made of iron bands linked together with leather straps and brass hinges.
		My opinion is that the lorica segmentata is a response to the fighting style of the German barbarians in general and the disaster in the Teutoberger Wald in particular.
	home.earthlink.net /~tahdah/tbc_roman1.html (2185 words)

	IGN: Rome Total War
		Every legionary's chainmail armour, the lorica hamata, is of very good quality, as is the rest of his gear: a metal helmet and a large curved shield.
		Every legionary's flexible banded armour, the lorica segmenta, is of very good quality, as is the rest of his gear: a metal helmet and a large curved shield.
		Every legionary's banded metal armour, the lorica segmenta, is of very good quality, as is the rest of his gear: a metal helmet and a large curved shield.
	pc.ign.com /articles/549/549046p15.html (1021 words)

	ARMOR, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Helmets were designed to enclose the entire head; in their perfected form only a Y-shaped opening for eye-slits and for breathing was left.
		The cuirass (lorica) worn by Roman soldiers was a modification of Greek armor and existed in three basic versions: lorica squamata, with bronze scales on a leather backing; lorica hamata, made of mail, that is, of interlinked iron rings; and lorica segmentata, constructed of horizontally overlapping iron plates.
		Nonmetallic versions of bone or wood lamellae were worn by the Chukchi in Kamchatka, the Inuit (Eskimo) in Alaska, and the Iroquois in New York State (at the time of European contact).
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=201501 (1792 words)

	8_1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term, Lorica Segmentata, is relatively modern, coined to describe this particular type of Roman armor.
		More recent studies suggest that the term “lorica laminata” may be more correct but because of a long tradition of use the phrase “lorica segmentata” has become the embedded term used by historians and reenactors alike.
		A lorica segmentata in order to function well and to be comfortable to wear for hours and even days at a time is best when made to measure.
	www.legio-ix-hispana.org /8_1.html (5932 words)

	Legion XXIV - Lorica Segmentata Newstead Type Armor
		The Newstead lorica had only six girdle plates, with the bottom unit being twice the depth of the others.
		The six small independent upper back plates of the Corbridge lorica were replaced by a single shoulder and upper back plate on each side.
		The "Newstead" was the final form of this "laminated" type armor; which fell out of favor in the early Third Century AD, when the Roman Army returned to the use of the earlier Lorica Hamata "ring" maile armor.
	www.legionxxiv.org /newsteadenlrg (464 words)

	Photo: Roman Lorica \| 2 album \| Vytys \| Fotki.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The lorica (referred to in modern terms as the lorica segmentata, became a standard form of armour for imperial Roman soldiers, although other forms of armour were also just as popular and in many places more popular than the lorica.
		These include forms of maille (lorica hamata), scale armour (lorica squamata), and the lorica plumata, which consisted of very tiny feather like scale plates attached to a maille undercoat.
		The lorica shown here is the earlier form designated by H. Russell Robinson as "Corbridge type A".
	public.fotki.com /bumfights3/armour/loricafront.html (142 words)

	Legionary Weapons and Equipment
		Lorica Hamata Chain mail that was used extensively throughout Roman history and well after its fall.
		Rather than the Lorica Segmentata of the Legionary, they would wear either chain or scale.
		Lorica Musculata The muscled cuirass was a bronze chest piece made in two pieces, one for the front and one for the back, and buckled together at the sides.
	www.unrv.com /military/legionary-weapons-equipment.php (1355 words)

	Early Imperial Romans (25 BC - 193 AD) - DBA 64
		Lorica Segmenta was the primary Roman armour in western armies by the early 2nd century.
		Heavier auxilia were issued the lorica hamata (reissued from down-sized Augustan legions) and a larger flat oval shield.
		In the later 2d Century, lorica hamata gave way in some units to scale corselets to aid mobility (and as the reissued lorica hamata wore out).
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/dba64.html (1813 words)

	Xena Props - Armor
		A great chapter in mans history and its understanding of warfare in the classical world culminates from the battles fought by the great armies of Rome and the legions of troopers whose loyalty and support gave power to such Generals such as Julius Caesar.
		The main armor of a soldier of this time consisted of a ³Lorica Segmentata¹¹ cuirass whose segmented sections and hinged steel pieces riveted to leather straps afforded maneuverability with the added protection of plate steel.
		Although it never completely replaced the mail (Lorica Hamata) and scale armour (Lorica Squamata), for the modern mind the Lorica Segmentata typifies the Roman soldier.
	www.awebcreation.com /xena/props/Armor.html (1726 words)

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