09-13-2014, 09:41 PM
The Corbridge shoulder assembles (six in all from the hoard) do, indeed, indicate that the 'point' of the pentagonal upper shoulder plate points towards the neck. This might be counter-intuitive from our aesthetic perspective, but it's what the actual items show. As these are the only examples known (so far as I am aware) where the armour was found in an articulated condition, it's the one we have to go by. Full details of this arrangement can be found in Volume I of the lorica segmentata monographs and also in the English Heritage publication: "Roman Corbridge, The Hoard" by Mike Bishop & Lindsey Allason-Jones.
Incidentally, for the sake of accuracy, Mike Bishop wrote the first of the two monographs on the armour.. Volume II was compiled and written by yours truly.
Mike Thomas
(Caratacus)
Incidentally, for the sake of accuracy, Mike Bishop wrote the first of the two monographs on the armour.. Volume II was compiled and written by yours truly.
Mike Thomas
(Caratacus)
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