11-04-2014, 11:41 PM
All I can say from the pictorial evidence is that they were rimmed. I would guess with bronze or iron for wealthier owners, rawhide for the less prosperous. Armamentaria sells one rimmed with brass. Some may have been rimmed with metal only at top and bottom. I think the latter s how I'll make mine, when I get to it.
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