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High-Grade Synthetic Practice Swords Museum Replicas is proud to announce that we are now carrying these awesome practice weapons! If you're looking for some real training, or just a good medieval spar, look no further. From Europe come these high-grade, nylon practice swords. Museum Replicas will be the exclusive distributor for these weapons in North America. See them in action!  One Handed Sword$90.00 Two Handed Sword$90.00 Ab...

All troopers wore a helmet of steel and brass (300074) plus body armor, either a lorica segmentata (300176), made of steel lames or a lorica hamata, made of steel mail with shoulder doublings. As for the undergarments, very few articles were worn. There are examples of a loincloth or loose short being worn underneath and of course a long tunic (100042) overtop. During festivals and stately occasions a Roman would not be without his robes or toga...

Mail in this type of combat was very useful, but it was not long before pieces of plate armor began to be added at the elbows and knees and then to other areas of the body. This evolution spawned another and the arms race was on! One popular adaption was the increasing use of impact weapons like hammers, axes, maces, flails and clubs. Through the inventive change in circumventing the better armor of the day (300100), the sword still remain...