Lorica segmentata from Caerleon

[mcbishop]

The ring looks very much like the newstead ones?

In order both to bump this back into the collective RATsciousness and answer the question, yes it does, probably because it was a Newstead-type cuirass! ;-) These rings are everywhere – I even found one in the Housesteads collection the other day – and there is a useful paper on them:

Kleiser, C. 2009: 'Schliessösen vom Schienenpanzer', Römisches Österreich 32, 85–102

above and beyond and as well as the obvious section in Dr Thomas' book.

Mike Bishop