Lower cross hanger under plate, designs?

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I have to admit to being a little dubious about making that type of locket plate with longer 'legs'. I know that Martin White of the ESG reconstructed the Valkenburg and Long Windsor plates that way, and that Len Morgan now makes them that way following my posting up of my short article on these lockets on the RMRS website.
http://www.romanarmy.net/scabbard.htm

However, all of the examples of this type which I know of, with the possible exception of the Porto Novo scabbard (I do not presently have a sufficiently detailed picture of it to be sure) seem to to be very consistent in the length of the legs, strongly suggesting that the legs were normally short and did not extend down to the lower cross hanger. They are normally pieced at the bottoms of the legs to allow for the attachment of one cross hanger but this would have to be the upper cross hanger as the only holes to be found higher up are the holes to attach the bracing piece which runs along the back at the top.

The Porto Novo scabbard had side guttering which the lower cross hanger appears to be riveted to. However, neither the Sofia or Long Windsor examples, both of which were still associated with their swords, appear to have been associated with side guttering, so it may be correct to think that this type of locket was often used on scabbards where the lower cross hanger was not in contact with any other metallic parts.

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