Lorica segmentata from Caerleon

[Caratacus]

I would say so (i.e. too early). If you look at the pictures posted above, you can see that there is only a small portion of the scale armour visible. If it were horse armour, that would mean that there aught to be an awful lot more of it under the dirt somewhere. What is visible seems to be about the size of a human torso - but that is really guesswork (on my part) and I think we are going to have to be patient and wait for this to be conserved and then published.

Mike Thomas
(Caratacus)