10-09-2008, 11:55 AM
Quote:Both methods of ataching items to the leather are used.
Looking some publications, you can see the caracteristic inverted "L" shape of the clenched rivets of the plates.
Normal practice in the 1st century AD seems to have been to use roves (aka washers) when constructed but that repairs were done by simply clenching. The Mainz-Dimesser Ort strap was finished with small circular roves, according to Lindenschmit.
Mike Bishop