Another new Graham Sumner book?

[Paullus Scipio]

Ruben wrote:

Two of the moulds are for shields, and we know for a fact that shield facings were beaten in bronze.

.....but as was noted on that other thread, the moulds for the shields were "female" moulds i.e. hammered from the rear to produce a pattern on the front, whilst the helmet moulds are "male" moulds which work in reverse, and much more difficult, if not impossible, to produce detail in bronze that way.....