11-28-2009, 12:57 PM
Byron.
I would like very much to agree with you and I do see your point, infact up to now you are the only one who has put forward any other reasonable name for these things.
I do understand that the porpose of RAT is to discuss matters concerning history and these bellcaps are indeed artifacts that come to us from history, what I would like to know can anyone who might object to the name of these things kindly explain just who coined the terms Locket...Chape..etc...etc...etc. that they might appear to be happy with.
Indeed at one stage in this hair splitting discussion Matt has refered to these objects being washers, in that case should we wish to become so precise and scientific the dictionary definition of a washer is that it is a flat object.
I would like to reiterate yet again that for many decades now the terminology used by Archaeologists has been bellcap, it may have something to do with the fact that they are shaped like a bell but then have a countersink hole in them.
It is the countersink hole which then makes them a very scientifically engineered innovation used for fitting plates to belts and other objects to leather, indeed Byron by possibly being something of a "Stress Transference Depletor" but then the more simple name bellcap is enough of a mouthfull I would think.
I would like very much to agree with you and I do see your point, infact up to now you are the only one who has put forward any other reasonable name for these things.
I do understand that the porpose of RAT is to discuss matters concerning history and these bellcaps are indeed artifacts that come to us from history, what I would like to know can anyone who might object to the name of these things kindly explain just who coined the terms Locket...Chape..etc...etc...etc. that they might appear to be happy with.
Indeed at one stage in this hair splitting discussion Matt has refered to these objects being washers, in that case should we wish to become so precise and scientific the dictionary definition of a washer is that it is a flat object.
I would like to reiterate yet again that for many decades now the terminology used by Archaeologists has been bellcap, it may have something to do with the fact that they are shaped like a bell but then have a countersink hole in them.
It is the countersink hole which then makes them a very scientifically engineered innovation used for fitting plates to belts and other objects to leather, indeed Byron by possibly being something of a "Stress Transference Depletor" but then the more simple name bellcap is enough of a mouthfull I would think.
Brian Stobbs
