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Weapons • Armour • Other Equipment
Weapons

Two pila from Hod Hill with bent shanks. They have lost their tangs or sockets. Image: © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Pila

Ferrous pilum head and shank from Little Linford. The square-sectioned shank is bent just below the pyramidal head (which also has a bent tip). Image: Buckinghamshire County Council/Ros Tyrrell
Pilum

Complete irons from square-socketed pila found at Harzhorn. Both have expansions where weights may have been attached. Image: Axel Hindemith
Pila

Ferrous pila in Saalburg museum, with a tanged example on the left and a socketed one in the middle. Image: MCB
Pila

Four plumbatae from Enns (AUT) in the Museum Lauriacum. Image: Wolfgang Sauber (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Plumbatae
Armour

The Kasr el-Harit plywood shield, thought to be the only example of a curved Republican Roman legionary shield to survive (although it is often claimed as 'Celtic' or Hellenistic, despite the fact that only Roman shields seem to have been shaped to the body in this way). Now in the National Police Museum in Cairo (EGY). Image Ashashyou (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Shield

The curved rectangular shield from Tower 19 at Dura-Europos in its current state. Image: Yale Art Gallery
Dura shield

Curved, rectangular copper-alloy shield boss with six of eight domed shield nails in situ. Image: P. Gross
Shield boss

Curved rectangular copper-alloy shield boss from the River Tyne at South Shields with a hemispherical boss, engraved and punctim decoration, and selective tinning. Image: © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Shield boss

Oval ferrous shield boss found (together with the remains of shield edging) on the Hunerberg at Nijmegen (NLD). Image: Museum het Valkhof (Public Domain Mark 1.0)
Shield boss

Circular copper-alloy shield boss from Kirkham (GBR) decorated with incised representations of Mars, tropaea, eagles, winged victories, and various other figures. Image: © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Shield boss

Circular copper-alloy shield boss from Zwammerdam with a hemispherical dome. There are punctim ownership inscriptions, including T(urma) VERACIS PUPI, indicating it belonged to a cavalryman. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden
Shield boss

Hemispherical shield boss of copper alloy with a raised spina across its centre. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (CC0)
Shield boss

Copper-alloy shield boss from Nijmegen. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (CC0 1.0)
Shield boss

Decorated copper-alloy shield boss depicting Roman victory over the Dacians and bearing a Latin insacription transliterated into Greek commemorating a member of the equites singulares. The object has sustained a horizontal blow to the umbo. All four decorated shield nails survive in situ. Private collection. Image: P. Gross
Shield boss
Other Equipment

Decorative roundel, possibly a sword suspension button from a belt, with an embossed hunt scene, from Valkenburg. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (CC0 1.0)
Suspension button

Copper-alloy belt plate with chased and punctim decoration, the central boss being surrounded by a hunt scene. Image MCB
Belt plate

Hunt scene belt plate from Magdalensberg (AUT). The cut-out to the left suggests this was originally a buckle- or dagger-frog-plate. Image: MCB
Belt plate

Belt-plate stamp of copper alloy found at Sheepen, Colchester, matching examples of such plates from Chichester (amongst others). Image: MCB
Stamp

Copper-alloy belt plate with embossed lotus-flower motifs in a central roundel from Valkenburg. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (CC0 1.0)
Belt plate

Copper-alloy embossed belt plates and buckle from Chassenard (FRA). Image: Cangadoba (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Belt plates

Copper-alloy inlaid belt plate and buckle from Valkenburg. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (CC0)
Belt plate and buckle

Belt plate with attached buckle from Valkenburg. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (CC0 1.0)
Belt plate and buckle

Hinged belt plate and buckle from Pompeii. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art (PD)
Belt plate and buckle

A copper-alloy buckle plate with hinge, but missing most of its belt plate. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (CC0 1.0)
Buckle plate