Also, some sites do not allow horses, and at others special arrangements may need to be made. Archers must have an approved recurve bow, and arrows and other gear must also be correct. All such items must be approved before use, as usual. Leather or fabric covering, brass or stitched-on leather rim, single horizontal handgrip. Cavalry may use Coolus types or Auxiliary cavalry types.
Scale armor is also an option.
Some were carefully made and could even be decorated, but most were simply forged from an isoceles triangle of thick sheet iron. The wide end was wrapped to form the socket, and the seam was usually not forged shut. The blade part was quickly hammered into a lens cross-section and the edges ground or filed sharp. The rest was apparently left black from the forge. The buttspike was a plain iron cone also made from a triangle, identical to that on a pilum.