The Romans Army used three types of body armour

1) A hooped arrangement called lorica segmentata.

2) Scaled metal plates called lorica squamata.

3) Chain mail or lorica hamata.

SWORDS (GLADIUS & SPATHA)

The gladius was the primary weapon of the Roman legions. The gladius was a short 40 and 60 cm length, two-sided sword used during the late Roman Republic and much of the Roman Empire. The earliest gladius can be dated to the early Roman Kingdom in the seventh century BCE.