00:00Late Roman soldiers gradually replaced heavy iron mail with practical wool tunics.
00:04How did the late Roman transition toward lighter protection contribute to frontier vulnerabilities?
00:10Lighter troops gained speed, but discarding heavy iron mail severely reduced their frontline combat
00:16resilience. Archaeological and textual evidence indicates that late Roman limitani gradually
00:22replaced heavy iron mail with more flexible, unarmored wool tunics. Archaeological and
00:27textual evidence indicates that late Roman limitani gradually replaced heavy iron mail
00:32with more flexible, unarmored wool tunics.
