Corbridge A Breastplates - to cross or not cross diagonally?

[sulla felix]

Yes Matts stuff is great, no one here is arguing that Sulla.....

Not to disagree with you...but when somebody claims they are making a "replica", I think it is important to determine just what they mean by that. If you actually read the thread the point is crossing breast plates which, if you make a "replica" of the actual evidence, IMHO you simply cannot avoid, unless of course you have some evidence to the contrary :wink:

Matt has presented evidence. I have yet to see anybody else really do that in this thread (with the exception of one of Tarbicus's latest post of the Corbridge B breast plate and the Kalkreise breast plate - which in itself is interesting due to the difference in width of those two examples).

Empirical analysis can only be useful if it is based upon observations relative to the actual evidence IMHO.