01-08-2009, 06:42 PM
Salvete,
The doubled leather construction can be seen on several original baltei, mostly finds from bogs. To my knowledge none of these come from the 1st century AD but from the 2nd and 3rd century AD. We have however no information about the construction of 1st century belts. I think it's quite likely that the construction method of belts in the 1st century AD would have been comparable to that of the later belts.
There have been threads in the past in which Christian supplied a lot of usefull information.
The belts found in the bogs were mostly made out of sheep or goat leather, with a layered construction. I described the different methods in my first post.
Some references that mention belt construction:
Stjernquist, B. 1954: 'Runde Beschlagplatten mit Befestigungsöse', Saalburg-Jahrbuch 13, 59-68
C. Engelhardt (1869) Vimose Fundet
Ilkaer, Jorgen. Illerup Adal. 3-4. Die Gürtel: Bestandteile und Zubehör. (Jysk Arkæologisk Selskabs Skrifter, 25) 1993. 2 Bände
Valete,
The doubled leather construction can be seen on several original baltei, mostly finds from bogs. To my knowledge none of these come from the 1st century AD but from the 2nd and 3rd century AD. We have however no information about the construction of 1st century belts. I think it's quite likely that the construction method of belts in the 1st century AD would have been comparable to that of the later belts.
There have been threads in the past in which Christian supplied a lot of usefull information.
The belts found in the bogs were mostly made out of sheep or goat leather, with a layered construction. I described the different methods in my first post.
Some references that mention belt construction:
Stjernquist, B. 1954: 'Runde Beschlagplatten mit Befestigungsöse', Saalburg-Jahrbuch 13, 59-68
C. Engelhardt (1869) Vimose Fundet
Ilkaer, Jorgen. Illerup Adal. 3-4. Die Gürtel: Bestandteile und Zubehör. (Jysk Arkæologisk Selskabs Skrifter, 25) 1993. 2 Bände
Valete,
