01-16-2015, 09:57 AM
Renatus.
Here is a bell cap on a Roman horse bronze in my collection that has the bell cap still fitted to it and it is still raised up with leather beneath it, also a picture showing just how bell caps are made where these tiny domes are hammered out of sheet brass.
The ones on the Newstead plates are flush with the plates therefore there could never have been leather under them, so they have to be holding maybe rings at the outside opposite the name side.
[attachment=11563]Hbronze.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=11564]bellcaps.jpg[/attachment]
Here is a bell cap on a Roman horse bronze in my collection that has the bell cap still fitted to it and it is still raised up with leather beneath it, also a picture showing just how bell caps are made where these tiny domes are hammered out of sheet brass.
The ones on the Newstead plates are flush with the plates therefore there could never have been leather under them, so they have to be holding maybe rings at the outside opposite the name side.
[attachment=11563]Hbronze.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=11564]bellcaps.jpg[/attachment]
Brian Stobbs
