01-14-2012, 01:29 AM
Byron.
I have to say you are a bit of a Hawkeye well spotted, however this can be the case for other pins on some studs can indeed be square.
The Vindolanda had 3 different sizes of studs there were 3mm dia' 6mm dia' and 17mm dia, and at the time I was creating the Vindolanda chamfron Robin Birley's wife put a stud of around 17mm into my hand and that had a square shank to it.
The tiny heads used on the Vindolanda had stud pins on the rear that did look to be round ones, so might we think that this extra broken bellcap might have been fitted to such a larger type stud. Then having said all that the pins at the rear of that vine leaf are in fact flat shaped and most clearly bent over to hold the plate to leather, hence my explanation of how a pin looks when a bellcap falls off it.
I have to say you are a bit of a Hawkeye well spotted, however this can be the case for other pins on some studs can indeed be square.
The Vindolanda had 3 different sizes of studs there were 3mm dia' 6mm dia' and 17mm dia, and at the time I was creating the Vindolanda chamfron Robin Birley's wife put a stud of around 17mm into my hand and that had a square shank to it.
The tiny heads used on the Vindolanda had stud pins on the rear that did look to be round ones, so might we think that this extra broken bellcap might have been fitted to such a larger type stud. Then having said all that the pins at the rear of that vine leaf are in fact flat shaped and most clearly bent over to hold the plate to leather, hence my explanation of how a pin looks when a bellcap falls off it.
Brian Stobbs
