Leather Cuirass

[Magnus]

Though I agree with you Matt that linen was more common than animal material and more cheap I refer you again to page one of the "armor penetration" thread, to the link that shows a very resilient leather masculata.

Spolas was probably re-enforced on the vital parts or the most likely to be exposed/hit parts and I still belive it was more probably a subarmalis.

Kind regards

You're putting a LOT of faith in a test that had no scientific parameters to it. That test has no validity that I can see from surface scrutiny for 2 major reasons:

1. The type of leather and how it was processed and hardened was by no way a copy of how it was done 3000 years ago. Thus, it is factually impossible to tell if the leather that was tested in the recent thread was even remotely close to resembling one theoretically used by the greeks. Thus, the test is completely irrelevant.

2. The weapon used...a modern steel, modern heat treated knife. If you can show me that the greeks were using Ka-Bars or M-9 bayonets, I'll bow down to that test. :lol: The test would also be more accurate if it was proven against spear tips, or arrow heads.

In order to test something and have any truth to it, you absolutely have to maintain the validity and accuracy of it. Otherwise any results are totally meaningless.