Making Pteruges (or at least trying to make Pteruges!)

[Magnus]

I am now officially bored with this and moving to something more interesting.

John, if you can't play nicely...well you know how the rest of that expression goes. Your entire arguments are based on your opinion, yet when people express theirs backed up by evidence you deviate from the topic, or use examples which are not contemporary. You deflect and redirect so that you don't have to address the points that people bring up. That hardly seems logical. And it makes you come across as being a bit petty.

If you have no desire to enter debates with anything more than your own opinion, be prepared to have it challenged. Bring evidence and your stock goes up. So far you have not done this.

The use of leather has already been explained over and over, as to when and for what it was used for.

Yes, thick leather was great for armour, the japanese used it extensively in their yoroi. However, if you can prove that leather shield covers (your original post here) or your deviation that pteryges were that thick of leather, then by all means do so. If you can prove the shield cover was for protection, then do so. Simply saying over and over that you think they were leather is a far cry from being good enough for evidence.