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Roman Body Armour, Hilary & John Travis
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08-19-2015, 04:33 PM
Quote: reversal of the shoulder pieces with the mid-upper shoulder guard having the point facing inwards towards the neck
Not to pick nits, but that was pointed out (or in ;-) ) in the Corbridge Hoard report in 1988 (p.100 I think). Download it here (fully legal PDF of whole book).

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