10-26-2020, 08:59 AM
The vast majority of these hinges may be made from thin sheet metal, but they are usually doubled over making them much stronger then they might at first seem, its quite a normal method used on all types of objects for this kind of attachment through multiple historical eras.
see: Lorica Segmentata Volume I: A Handbook of Articulated Roman Plate Armour
and: Lorica Segmentata Volume II: Finds
see: Lorica Segmentata Volume I: A Handbook of Articulated Roman Plate Armour
and: Lorica Segmentata Volume II: Finds
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
