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My effort to map out all the museums with Roman military artifacts just turned up a surprise in the museum in Stillfried, Austria. As far as I can tell this isn't mentioned in the website, but if you look in the display case in the back of the room, you see several girdle plates:
http://www.museumstillfried.at/en/virtua...omans.html
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(04-07-2016, 02:03 PM)richsc Wrote: My effort to map out all the museums with Roman military artifacts just turned up a surprise in the museum in Stillfried, Austria. As far as I can tell this isn't mentioned in the website, but if you look in the display case in the back of the room, you see several girdle plates:
http://www.museumstillfried.at/en/virtua...omans.html
Just what I could glean from the site no mention as far as I can see in "Lorica Segmentata II" M.D.Thomas..
Der Stillfrieder Spangenpanzer:
"Roman armour in bronze and iron – lorica squamata - and three fragments of lorica segmentata, a sword scabbard, a dagger with sheath as well as fragments of helmets remained from the roman occupation."
an Email might get a result as I get the impression its a relatively recent find, at least the left hand pics seem to show the armour in situ...
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Quote:Just what I could glean from the site no mention as far as I can see in "Lorica Segmentata II" M.D.Thomas.
It wouldn't have been, I'm afraid. LS II only contained items which had been published and at the time the Stillfried girdle plates had not been so
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