Our signifer\'s new squamata

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I thought that was my forte!

Any word on Lens progress on his walk?

[Franklin]

Where did the scales come from?

[Peroni]

Where did the scales come from?

The armour was made by Len Morgan.

:wink:
They are Len's own scales. (priced @ 10 pence each IIRC)

[Marcus Mummius]

Looks fantastic

I'm going to make one myself in the future.

Out of curiousity: how much does Len charge for such an armour?

Vale,

[Peroni]

Out of curiousity: how much does Len charge for such an armour?

I daren't ask! hock:

I do know that because of all of his regular work, it took him nearly three years to complete for Suavis!

[Marcus Mummius]

I daren't ask! hock:

That much is it?

[Matt Lukes]

Just imagine making 4000+ scales including drilling or punching 6 holes in each, then attaching them in rows, sewing the rows to a linen garment, then do all the leather edging...

[Chuck Russell]

ah so its free then a gift of... love? hahah jkjk

[Marcus Mummius]

Just imagine making 4000+ scales including drilling or punching 6 holes in each, then attaching them in rows, sewing the rows to a linen garment, then do all the leather edging...

I won't be making the scales myself, mind you :wink: I'm crazy enough as it is...

[Crispvs]

Thanks for those pictures Peronis. They are in every way better than the somewhat blurry images I got of Svavis' new armour at the Lunt. And yes I agree - it is a thing of great beauty. The long and (somewhat) impatient wait is over.

Crispvs

[Marcus Mummius]

Salve,

I've seen a few different squamata patterns.

1. With shoulder doubling, same pattern as a basic hamata with houlder doubling

2. Without shoulder doubling but with some kind of circular collar

3. The pattern as seen in this post. With shoulder doubling but with a short waist and with built in 'tongue pteruges'

Are all of these patterns suitable for the first century AD? Would the last pattern have been reserved for officers? What does the evidence say?

Vale,
Jef

[M. Demetrius]

Where did the scales come from?

Brass dragons? :lol:

[Peroni]

Are all of these patterns suitable for the first century AD? Would the last pattern have been reserved for officers? What does the evidence say?

The evidence from funerary stele and stones says that scalloped edges like this were worn by standard bearers and centurions. The regular soldiers that appear in scale on the metopes of the Tropeum Traiani at Adamklissi do not have this feature.

Cavalry tombstones do not have this feature, for the obvious reason that a shorter armour is better to ride in.