Double belt apron question.

[CWyre]

I was just looking at the stele again and wondered, have any of the large apron top plates have been found, like this one?
[url:1aqf1ukp]http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/images/stories/imagebase/Unknowns/lg_unkMilesMainzIId1.jpg[/url]

[Tarbicus]

I was just looking at the stele again and wondered, have any of the large apron top plates have been found, like this one?
[url:bw0y14j6]http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/images/stories/imagebase/Unknowns/lg_unkMilesMainzIId1.jpg[/url]

Well that assumes it's a metal plate. There are others in the Imagebase that you should look for, which seem to have diamond pattern 'quilting' perhaps. I'm of a mind to suggest they're leather. I even had the wacko idea it may be a purse as it's an ideal place to store your cash - even if you'd taken it off for a spell, try stealing from it without setting off the attached alarm bells, better known as the apron fittings.

[Matt Lukes]

There's one belt plate from Vindonissa that's a monster at about 55mm in width, and another that's around 50mm, but the vast majority seem to be the somewhat smaller 30-36mm range (not including the narrower Augustan types that is).

[Tarbicus]

Matt, are you talking about the large horizontal rectanguler piece at the top of the apron, spanning all straps between the belt itself and the apron straps?