09-25-2007, 01:45 AM
Quote:here's a little pierced bronze plate that the author mentions might be a scale. Don't think you'd need so many holes for scale, but perhaps an embedded plate? yea, weak I know, but it's a start. Maybe its a piece of a helmet and pierced for lining.I've been researching scale and lamellar armour typologies for years - including medieval jacks of plate and brigandines and have seen nothing that even remotely looks like this photo. I don't think it has anything at all to do with body armour.
I'm searching the Isthmian dig for more, and hopefully larger pierced bronze plates.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books