Talk:Plate skirt

Accuracy?

Info taken from Legio XX's website:

Roman soldiers did not wear, nor is the re-enactor in the picture wearing a "plate skirt". The Romans wore what was called a "cingulum" or "balteus" and was nothing more than a leather belt with thin, decorative metal plates riveted on to it. Over the front were riveted leather strips (apron) draped and adorned with metal discs and ended in a decorative metal piece called a terminal. The belt was functional as belts are today, with the added ability to hold up pugio (dagger) and gladius (sword) sheaths via frogs. It never served a purpose as armor - Tiberius Claudius Marcellus