> I was surprised to read on one of the sites (from my > L3 post) that Romans and some Oriental tribes used > chainmail on their horses -- do you think this is > correct?
I don't know about mail, but certainly Roman cavalry used other types of horse armor -- scale and/or lamellar, either metallic, hardened leather, or made of horn. The Romans were influenced to a degree from Eastern peoples, such as the Sarmatians, oriental Germans (Goths, etc) and of course the Parthians and Sassanid Persians. So much so that they adopted some of their cavalry fighting styles (Cataphractarii and Clibanarii) as well as horse armor. Fragments of such panoplies have been discovered by archaeologists, as well as primary sources of the time discussing such troops. Damon. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
