(Another) Roman Saddle Question

[mcbishop]

A simpler explanation might be that, as the bronze-worker who made the stiffeners is unlikely to have been the same person as the saddle-maker who constructed the saddle, the bronze-worker scratched the owner's name on the stiffeners after he had made them, so that the saddle-maker could mount them on the correct saddle when he constructed it.

I think that's more-or-less what Peter concluded in his paper* on the Newstead saddle horns.

*Connolly, P. 1990: 'The saddle horns from Newstead', Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 1, 61-6

Mike Bishop