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This page and the ones which follow are devoted to brief descriptions and images of the individual pieces of a Roman Legionary's dress, weapons, armour, and equipment being modeled by modern Roman reenactors. Like all the pages on this site and CD-ROM, this series of pages is a work in progress. the reader or visitor may expect new material to be added approximately three times a year.

In the image above, Robert Garbisch stands ready to cast his pilum at an enemy's shield. The general idea was for the hard steel point to penetrate one or more shields while the soft iron necks bent over and so encumberd the shield(s) that it(they) were thrown away by the frustrated enemy who can neither extract the pilum head nor snap off the thin soft neck before the legionary has rushed him with the cold steel menace of a drawn gladius, plunging the sword deep within his abdomen and quickly ending the enemy's life.