The Romans widely adopted mail as the lorica hamata, although they also made use of lorica segmentata and lorica squamata.

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The individual plates were hung on a leather harness with brass buckles.

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They don’t quite know when the use of Lorica Segmentata began, or ended, or why soldiers stopped wearing it, or exactly whether it was used only by legions or also auxiliaries, or how many different styles there were, or why different styles came into use. There are apparently several major types of Lorica Segmentata that have been recovered by archaeologists.

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Time frame isn’t quite as clear, with Wikipedia suggesting it was used during the Roman Republic (509 B.C. Can we compare wages of merchant ship captain in the Pirate Era compare to today? Maintenance of lorica hamata armor was far easier than lorica segmentata.

Image not available. It would likely protect from the thrust of a javelin or spear but not from a thrown javelin or pilum.

Website says no examples of subarmalis have survived, which makes sense since one would expect leather and linen to have disintegrated after merely a few centuries. The Romans learned the secret of chain from the Celts in the 3rd century in fact, and the Roman Legions of the day were often outfitted with chain hauberks known as Lorica Hamata while going about the duty of the Motherland.

Description of Scutum, a Roman Legionnaire's shield. The interlocking rings were of alternating types.

Archaeologists have found lots of lorica squamata fragments but no complete sets.