Hey guys, on a mondial preview
I'm showing you my reconstruction of an Iron Age warrior who lived where I live now.... only 2600-2700 years ago. Those are pics I had to do for the book that's coming out:
He's quite rich for he has an iron sword and a bronze helmet, plus a long iron spear with a defensive bronze wire attached to the socket. The originals of all of these weapons dates to the 8th C. and have been found in my town (the spear) and in a nearby one (sword+helmet).
His shield is totally made of raw leather (taken from the back of a kind bull), 2 layers sewn together for a thicknesso of about 1 centimeters, on the model of 3 original 8th C. shields found in Ireland.
The belt is also made of leather and was somewhat the symbol of his status: you're not a warrior if you haven't a belt like that! Something that will evolve into the later Roman cingulum.... The belt hook is modeled on an original found in Novilara, the town from which the helmet and the sword come.
The leather disc on the front is the kardiophylax, a cuirass which coupled with a similar one in the back. Our warrior is currently pillaging villages in order to get the money to commissionate a cooler bronze kardiophylax.... anyway this is modeled on 8th-7th C. cuirasses found all around the Region.
All the rest is hypothetical and based on founds or frescoes dating from the 9th to the 5th C. He's wearing a woolen tunic, leather shoes and a necklage of imported Oriental glass beads.