Cingulum
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Cingulum with Apron, Tinned Brass
SKU: AH6766This cingulum is composed of thick plates and a buckle in tin-plated antiqued brass, backed by robust leather, with a full decorative apron completing the historical arrangement. A second inner lining of suede leather protects the wearer’s tunic from the rivets that secure the decorative plates throughout. Twin rondels provide the classic attachment points for hanging a pugio dagger.
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Cingulum, Rheingonheim Pattern
SKU: AH6796This cingulum follows the Rheingonheim pattern, a style named for the site in Germany where the original artefacts on which it is based were discovered. Numerous belt plates in steel are riveted onto the thick, sturdy leather belt, with a pair of hinged disc swivel plates serving as anchor points for a pugio scabbard. Beautifully crafted with close attention to the intricate detailing of the Roman period, this belt was worn by military personnel and is fully wearable for re-enactment or costume use.
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Cingulum, Tekije Pattern
SKU: AH6726The Tekije belt design is thousands of years old, based on original finds dated to the Flavian period, the second half of the 1st century AD, discovered near Tekija in modern Serbia. This eye-catching belt is worked in hand-tanned red-brown leather, giving it an authentic period appearance distinct from the more familiar Mainz pattern. This version offers the Tekije-pattern plates and buckle without the additional apron, for a simpler build.
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Cingulum, Tekije Pattern, with Apron
SKU: AH6727The Tekije belt design is thousands of years old, based on original finds dated to the Flavian period, the second half of the 1st century AD, discovered near Tekija in modern Serbia. This eye-catching belt is worked in hand-tanned red-brown leather, giving it an authentic period appearance distinct from the more familiar Mainz pattern. The full decorative apron completes the historical arrangement, following genuine archaeological evidence for Roman belt construction on the empire’s Danubian frontier.
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Cingulum, She-Wolf with Romulus and Remus
SKU: AH6797This heavily adorned cingulum draws its decoration from one of Rome’s own founding myths, the she-wolf who nursed the twins Romulus and Remus, legendary founders of the city. Brass plates riveted to the belt carry that motif, alongside other imagery, in the alternating pattern typical of richly decorated legionary belts. A striking, mythologically grounded centrepiece for any Roman military impression.
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Roman Legionary Cingulum, Brass Apron
SKU: AH3868NThe Roman cingulum belt, also known as the cingulum militare, was an essential part of a Roman soldier’s equipment, serving not only as a functional belt but also as a visible symbol of military identity and rank. This reproduction includes the full decorative apron worked in brass, recreating the layered plates and pendants that made the cingulum a genuine display piece. Fully wearable, it suits legionary re-enactment as well as costume dressing.
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Roman military belts continued to evolve well past the height of the early Empire, and by Late Antiquity had taken on new styles distinct from the classic 1st and 2nd century cingulum. This belt is crafted in striking red leather with brass accents, reflecting the more colourful and stylistically distinct equipment of the later Roman military. Fully wearable, it recreates that later-period Roman look for re-enactment or costume use.
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Centurion’s Cingulum, 1st Century Pattern
SKU: AH3847A centurion, commanding roughly eighty men within a Roman legion, wore equipment noticeably more elaborate than the ordinary legionary, and the belt was no exception. This cingulum recreates that officer-grade belt, historically dated to the 1st century AD, with the decoration and finish befitting a centurion’s rank. Fully wearable, it suits a re-enactor building a specifically centurion, rather than rank-and-file legionary, impression.
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This legionary belt is built from high-quality natural leather with embossed brass plates riveted directly into the surface, forming a genuinely durable and decorative cingulum. It includes the full historical apron, or pteruges, decorated with enamelled brass rosettes along with dedicated pugio dagger holders. Together these elements recreate the layered, richly decorated look that made the cingulum as much a display of status as functional kit.
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The cingulum militare, a leather belt covered in decorative metal plates, was one of the most visible pieces of a Roman soldier’s kit — worn as much to display rank and honour as to hold up the braccae, or trousers, in battle. This reproduction follows the RGZM pattern, modelled on an original artefact dated to the second half of the 1st century AD, now held at the Romano-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. Natural tanned leather is fitted with brass plates and studs, complete with attachment points for hanging a pugio dagger.
