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Lamellar armor - Damianus Albus - 07-11-2016 Quick question. Does anyone know anything about this piece of lamellar armor? Dimensions of scales? Dating? It belongs to Budapest museum. RE: Lamellar armor - Flavivs Aetivs - 07-12-2016 Although a lot of people will classify this as locking scale (I classify it as Lamellar but I use a different classification system), yes this is similar to the 3rd Century example from Carnuntum. If I recall correctly... they are very small for lames. Only about 8-12mm wide. RE: Lamellar armor - Damianus Albus - 07-12-2016 I already have found out that these scales are 29x6mm. They were also found with much bigger scales 38x9mm. Well... Let's call it quasi-lamellar