10-18-2006, 04:42 PM
All,
a well informed friend asked me to tell you he found traces of leather padding on the inside of a fully bronze cheek piece of a Weisenau helmet (meaning not a iron-bronze composite cheek piece) while it was cleaned and restored. Rivets seem to go through the leather.
Not yet published, more info to follow.
a well informed friend asked me to tell you he found traces of leather padding on the inside of a fully bronze cheek piece of a Weisenau helmet (meaning not a iron-bronze composite cheek piece) while it was cleaned and restored. Rivets seem to go through the leather.
Not yet published, more info to follow.
