11-19-2019, 09:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2019, 11:46 PM by Dan Howard.)
There are enough extant examples to dedicate an entire volume of a journal to it.
https://www.academia.edu/1631975/Lorica_...red_Armour
Martijn calls this armour Lorica Hamata Squamataque, which is far better than the erroneous and misleading "plumata". The photo on the cover is a reconstruction of the Newstead example made by Erik D Schmid. I still have the patch of this armour that Erik included with the journal when it was first published.
https://www.academia.edu/1631975/Lorica_...red_Armour
Martijn calls this armour Lorica Hamata Squamataque, which is far better than the erroneous and misleading "plumata". The photo on the cover is a reconstruction of the Newstead example made by Erik D Schmid. I still have the patch of this armour that Erik included with the journal when it was first published.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books