Baldric construction

[Crispvs]

"It would appear that all other groups have simply followed the ESG without question on this subject."

Ah Brian, you haven't read my article on the carriage of weapons yet have you? :wink:

For another theoretical idea on how a baldric might be done up if it was very short and could not easily be put on over armour, which I also deal with in my article, a buckle could be positioned on the back of the baldric close to the scabbard suspension ring, allowing the strap to be passed through the ring and done up with the buckle on the back of the baldric strap.



This is of course speculative, based on three examples of scabbards associated with small buckles, and the observation that some baldrics shown in sculpture seem to be shown as extremely short. Of course, as Jurjen says above, no buckles appear to be shown on sculptural representations of baldrics and the commonly used cavalry harness junctions are simply wrong, which is why I placed the buckle in my suggestion on the rear of the baldric.

As far as using only two rings goes, the baldric on my current scabbard is now very old and about three years ago the lower strap of the split strap broke, meaning that my scabbard is now held by only the top two suspension rings. I have noticed that the scabbard appears to swing about much more now and on my new scabbard I intend to have a strap passing through each of the four rings.

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