Allies & Enemies of Rome :: RE: German belts
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 21:56:34
Hello! I've been recently trying to suffer all the relatively unauthentic parts of my kit and the next to go is my cheap braided flog belt from Fossil. I am interested in what types of belts the Germans would undergo worn during the first century AD. Would they be similar to the thick later Roman belts that the Goths wore during their invasions? Or would they be more desire the Celtic furnish belts such as the one on ? Thanks in go for you help!_________________-Amalric(Steven Bulman)Member of Legio V Alaudae
The Gothic invasions came during the 4th and 5th Centuries and the Germanic belts were generally wider. 3" - 4" with elaborate buckles and stiffeners as well as attachment points on them. The type is pretty well illustrated in the Osprey Warrior Series schedule #17. Germanic Warriors. These belts were also used in the Roman Army of that period as the Germanics made up much of that army.
Wider belts were only fashionable during the 4th century they become smaller again during the early 5th or eeven already during the late 4th c. It's also not correct to describe them as 'Germanic' only they were also worn by Roman soldiers and created by the army._________________Valerius/Robert VermaatMODERATORTHE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST (Maurikios-Strategikon book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
Thanks for the feedback! I was more interested in belts from around the first century AD. I am looking at portraying a Chatti warrior during the first century. I have open a few sources that describe Celtic belts and others that describe belts from the Gothic invasions but I haven't had any luck finding sources for German belts in the first century._________________-Amalric(Steven Bulman)Member of Legio V Alaudae
I have a lot of info on the large early Batavian belt fasten fittings from Kessel/Lith. PM me for details. (The Batavians were formerly part of the Chatti)_________________Regards,
Robert. I represent a civilian character around 390 CE in Britannia who wears a wide belt along with a tunic with clavi and orbiculi. My research had indicated that the militarization of Roman society had by that time led to the civil types copying the military in dress. As to the wide belts you may be right about them fading out in the early 5th Century but I guess that the question of who started the style the Romans or the Germanics is rather of a "chicken or egg question" in that it would be rather difficult at this shift to say who was using them first.
I think that you can find.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?p=166079#166079
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