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Costumes of the Barbarians, the enemies of the Romans: THE ILLUSTRATIONS BELOW ARE by no means taken from the same period of history. They are representative of the warriors that that fought the Roman Empire: Celts and Gauls, Germans, Teutons, Slavs, Scythians, Finns and Tartars. There are also Asiatics - the Goths, Visigoths, Huns and Vandals who banded together at the time of the great invasion of the Barbarians from the North during the fourth ahd fifth centuries. Their repeated attacks brought about the fall of the old Western Empire, 500 years after the battle of Actium and 1,200 hundred years after Romulus. Yet Rome did not even exist at the time when some of the stone-age peoples pictured here first roamed European soil. 1 A megalithic warrior, carrying an axe whose stone head has been pierced to take a wooden handle. 2 Also megalithic, a man wearing a rough woolen hood, shirt and trousers, a fur vest and a necklace of boar's teeth. 3 A man from the 'barrow" people, named for their burial mounds. 5, 7 & 8 Cro-Magnon men from the Paleolithic age. 5 This Cro-Magnon carries a flint-stone knife, with a bag containing flints. His shoes are made of skin and are lined with hair (10). The man in 7 carries a wooden spear and has wooden club attached to his belt. His tunic is made of bear's skin. The man in 8 appears to be a chief. He is holding a spear with a barbed edge, a lance with a wooden shaft, a dagger made of ivory from a mammoth (11) and a leader's baton made from a stag's antlers (9). 22 A Bronze Age soldier, with a helmet of thick leather, covered with feathers that hang down and cover most of the raised part. His cuirass is made of hemp and the tall, elliptically shaped shield is made of painted wood and reinforced with strips of bronze. 25 A warrior with a long cuirass that crosses over at the front. The helmet is made of leather with bronze studs and he is carrying a long sword with an iron blade and a bone handle. His forearms are protected by armbands (27). 26 A chieftain with a gold helmet plated with a crest and a horse-hair plume (sideways view, 28). His military cloak and tunic are made of red wool. 30, 35 & 37 Bronze Age warriors. The warrior in 30 carries a short bronze sword and a bronze- headed lance. His cuirass is made of strong leather. (Details - 43, 44 & 36). The warrior in 35 shows a bronze helmet with wings of feathers. His shoulder belt sup- ports a bronze sword and is decorated with bronze. (Details - 31, 39 & 41). In 37 the warrior's fringed cloak is attached by a bronze fibula. (Details - 31, 39 & 41). 33 A Bronze Age chieftain. The top of his bronze helmet is pointed and decorated with a feather from a white heron. His cloak, breeches and tunic are made of white wool. His cuirass is very long and made of strong leather with bronze studs, while the belt has a bronze clasp from which his sword, knife and daggers are hung. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy!
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