03-23-2012, 03:34 AM
Christian.
Where you say we should look at the findings and what was going on back then, if we consider the Velsen plates IMO I don't think that the plates would have been touching one another. For this would make for a belt that is not flexible therefore I do think there may have been gaps between the plates as well as the larger gap for the pugio.
When we use the measurements taken from the Morel and Bosman article of these 8 plates and give a gap of only 1cm between the plates we get an area covered in plates that is just over 73cm. Therefore on a waist line of 100cm it would cover over half the waist line as viewed from the front, but then when we consider the other plates you have mentioned we would have to work out yet another configeration for so many less.
Where you say we should look at the findings and what was going on back then, if we consider the Velsen plates IMO I don't think that the plates would have been touching one another. For this would make for a belt that is not flexible therefore I do think there may have been gaps between the plates as well as the larger gap for the pugio.
When we use the measurements taken from the Morel and Bosman article of these 8 plates and give a gap of only 1cm between the plates we get an area covered in plates that is just over 73cm. Therefore on a waist line of 100cm it would cover over half the waist line as viewed from the front, but then when we consider the other plates you have mentioned we would have to work out yet another configeration for so many less.
Brian Stobbs
