Corbridge A Breastplates - to cross or not cross diagonally?

[marsvigilia]

Perhaps Sean is right and there were OTHER plates that hung vertically. Perhaps someday OTHER plates will be found. But hanging over-sized mis-shaped plates in a vertical position with no supporting evidence is speculative at best, and pure fantasy at worst.

There's a Kalkriese plate that looks like it hung vertically (see a previous post I made http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic. ... 642#147642 ), simply because the shape looks like the neck opening would be wide enough. It's when we get to later developments in the seg that the plates are different to that.

Just wondering about the Newstead. Maybe it went back to vertical and the design went full circle.

Possibly you are right. I really haven't familiarized myself with the Newstead or the Kalkriese. I'm a Corbridge-A man myself.