Bronze scale questions

[Magnus]

But what exactly would it tell you about the way armour worked? :?
It seems to be well established that the metal component of armour is pretty much of no value without the padded component underneath it....

Because for some weird reason pig flesh resembles that of humans most closely. So instead of putting a piece of armour against a static target which to me, has little scientific value, now you can put it on something that acts very close to a human body. This will tell you how the armour behaves on a dynamic target. Isn't that what we want?