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Are lorica segmentata hinges specific to LS styles? What I am really getting at is can you identify the type of LS from the surviving hinge? If a hinge turns up in an archaeological dig can they tell if it is Corbridge or Newstead or Kalkriese or something else? Or conversely if one were reproducing a Newstead, for example, would there be specific hinges that would be more at home on it than on a Corbridge?
I'm not sure if there are different answers to the two versions of the question above but I am curious about both.
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Thanks Mike. That is an easy system to remember. What about the triangular openings on some large hinges. Is there a distinction between Corbridge and Newstead? So I am clear, I am referring to the ones in this pic from the above site. [url:2cyaoag3]http://www.romancoins.info/DSC_0070.JPG[/url]
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Quote:Thanks Mike. That is an easy system to remember. What about the triangular openings on some large hinges. Is there a distinction between Corbridge and Newstead? So I am clear, I am referring to the ones in this pic from the above site. [url:3qbjm0w7]http://www.romancoins.info/DSC_0070.JPG[/url]
Not per se- small lobate 'Corbridge' type hinges can have the triangular cutout as well as can the large 'Newstead' hinges, although I don't know if there are any Newstead hinges known without that feature. It's an uncommon one on Corbridge hinges though. In the image you linked to the one on the left is a Newstead, the one on the right is a Corbridge (an ugly one).
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