M. C . Bishop
M. C. Bishop is a freelance writer, publisher, and archaeologist. The founding editor of the Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies, he is a Visiting Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews and an Affiliate Researcher in the Endangered Archaeology project at the University of Oxford. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, as well as a member of the Roman Society and the Roman Finds Group. He has written one or two books and articles on the subject of Roman military equipment. Find him on Twitter as @perlineamvalli.
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Eckhard Deschler-Erb & Peter-Andrew Schwarz 'A bronze spearhead from Insula 22, and its significance for the urban history of Augusta Rauricorum (Augst BL, Switzerland)' 9-22
John Pamment Salvatore 'Roman tents 'replicated' in stone-built barracks of the 2nd century BC in Spain' 23-31
Catherine M. Gilliver 'The de munitionibus castrorum: Text and Translation' 33-48
Catherine M. Gilliver 'Hedgehogs, caltrops and palisade stakes' 49-54
David Woods 'The ownership and disposal of military equipment in the Late Roman army' 55-65
Marc Lodewijckx, Louis Wouters, Willy Viaene, Jan Salemink(+), Harry Kucha, Martine Wevers, and Ria Wouters (with a contribution by Simone Scheers and Franz Steenhoudt) 'A third-century collection of decorative objects from a Roman villa at Wange (Central Belgium): first interdisciplinary report' 67-99
T.G. Padley 'Two dolphin scabbard runners from Carlisle' 101-2
Jürgen Obmann 'Zu einer elfenbeinernen Dolchgriffplatte aus Nida-Heddernheim/Frankfurt am Main' 37-40
Katarzyna Czarnecka 'Two newly-found Roman swords from the Przeworsk culture cemetery in Oblin, Siedlce District, Poland' 41-55
W.J.H. Willems 'Roman face masks from the Kops Plateau, Nijmegen, The Netherlands' 57-66
Christof Flügel & Jürgen Obmann 'Waffen in Heiligtumern des Mithras' 67-71
Ann Hyland 'The Roman cavalry horse and its efficient control' 73-9
M.C. Bishop 'The early imperial "apron"' 81-104
David Sim 'The manufacture of disposable weapons for the Roman army' 105-19
Eckhard Deschler-Erb & Peter-Andrew Schwarz 'A bronze spearhead from Insula 22, and its significance for the urban history of Augusta Rauricorum (Augst BL, Switzerland)' 9-22
John Pamment Salvatore 'Roman tents 'replicated' in stone-built barracks of the 2nd century BC in Spain' 23-31
Catherine M. Gilliver 'The de munitionibus castrorum: Text and Translation' 33-48
Catherine M. Gilliver 'Hedgehogs, caltrops and palisade stakes' 49-54
David Woods 'The ownership and disposal of military equipment in the Late Roman army' 55-65
Marc Lodewijckx, Louis Wouters, Willy Viaene, Jan Salemink(+), Harry Kucha, Martine Wevers, and Ria Wouters (with a contribution by Simone Scheers and Franz Steenhoudt) 'A third-century collection of decorative objects from a Roman villa at Wange (Central Belgium): first interdisciplinary report' 67-99
T.G. Padley 'Two dolphin scabbard runners from Carlisle' 101-2
Jürgen Obmann 'Zu einer elfenbeinernen Dolchgriffplatte aus Nida-Heddernheim/Frankfurt am Main' 37-40
Katarzyna Czarnecka 'Two newly-found Roman swords from the Przeworsk culture cemetery in Oblin, Siedlce District, Poland' 41-55
W.J.H. Willems 'Roman face masks from the Kops Plateau, Nijmegen, The Netherlands' 57-66
Christof Flügel & Jürgen Obmann 'Waffen in Heiligtumern des Mithras' 67-71
Ann Hyland 'The Roman cavalry horse and its efficient control' 73-9
M.C. Bishop 'The early imperial "apron"' 81-104
David Sim 'The manufacture of disposable weapons for the Roman army' 105-19
Bewley, R., Wilson, A. I., Kennedy, D., Mattingly, D., Banks, R., Bishop, M., Bradbury, J., Cunliffe, E., Fradley, M., Jennings, R., Mason, R., Rayne, L., Sterry, M., Sheldrick, N., and Zerbini, A. (2016). 'Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Introducing the EAMENA Project', in S. Campana, R. Scopigno, G. Carpentiero, and M. Cirillo (eds), CAA2015. Keep the Revolution Going: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (Archaeopress Archaeology). Oxford, 919–32.
Just as the curve of a wingtip or snarl of a Merlin can still quicken the pulse of any modern Briton, the sight of legionaries clad in their distinctive body armour seems to have proclaimed one thing to the Romans for three centuries: military virtue.
Official metropolitan monuments in the Eternal City were covered with depictions of this sophisticated form of articulated plate armour. Everywhere a Roman looked they saw (what we now call) lorica segmentata.
Now, archaeological finds from all over the Roman Empire are telling us about the manufacture, use and evolution of the ultimate cutting-edge-technology defence. Where did it come from, how was it made, and to which troops was it issued?
Find out what Miss Shilling's Orifice and Roman girth hoops share in common, the importance of cut’n’shut and Heraclitus, and why names matter so much. Never in the field of human conflict has so much scrap metal proved so useful to so many.