hastati and boiled armour

[Dan Diffendale]

I know that at least some Italic armor shows a line of tiny holes around the edges implying that some sort of perishable backing was sewn on.<br>
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Notice around the edges of this triple-disc cuirass from Paestum dated c.380-370 BCE:<br>
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<img src="http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v293/DannoUlpius/paestum/panoply1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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Samnite belts show similar holes, eg. [url=http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v293/DannoUlpius/rd2004/panoply02lg.jpg" target="top]here[/url] and [url=http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v293/DannoUlpius/paestum/xiphosandbelt.jpg" target="top]here[/url] <p></p><i></i>