Lorica Plumata Article by Erik Schmid

[martijn.wijnhoven]

Mike,
Most scale designs that I am aware of have four holes.

Paolo,
I fear you may have misunderstood Mike's comment; he refers here to regular scales where three pairs of holes can be found (one at the top, one at the left- and one at the right side of the scale).

I am not aware of any with three. The lengths of scales vary from 7mm to 1.3mm maximum length.

Four holes at the top is indeed the norm for this kind of armour, but you will be in for a surprise when you read the Journal. There is more variance among the scales than initially thought.

Regards,

Martijn