05-07-2016, 01:40 PM
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The technology for making plate was the same for both metals. Some iron examples:
There were baskets of Assyrian iron scales recovered from Nineveh and dated to the 8th century BC.
A. H. Layard, A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh. New York: J. C. Derby. 1854, p. 221
There were hundreds of Persian and Greek iron scales found at Persepolis and dated to the fifth century BC.
Schmidt, Persepolis II: Contents of the Treasury and Other Discoveries, The University of Chicago Press, 1957, p. 97.
There were baskets of Assyrian iron scales recovered from Nineveh and dated to the 8th century BC.
A. H. Layard, A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh. New York: J. C. Derby. 1854, p. 221
There were hundreds of Persian and Greek iron scales found at Persepolis and dated to the fifth century BC.
Schmidt, Persepolis II: Contents of the Treasury and Other Discoveries, The University of Chicago Press, 1957, p. 97.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books
