04-21-2014, 02:29 PM
Quote:Since there is no evidence how the romans made the shoulder/neck area you can experiment freely.Oh yes there is. The Carlisle Millennium armour comes from the shoulder/neck are of a semi-rigid cuirass, whilst the Carpow cuirass includes both textile backing and leather neck binding from flexible scale. Both of these have been published.*
Mike Bishop
*Wild, J. P. (1981): 'A Find of Roman scale armour from Carpow', Britannia 12, 305-6
Coulston, J. C. N. (1999) in . Dore, J. N. & Wilkes, J. J. (eds.), 'Excavations directed by J.D Leach and J.J Wilkes on the site of a Roman fortress at Carpow, Perthshire, 1964-79', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland 129 561-6
Bishop, M. C. (2009): 'The body armour' in C. Howard-Davis, The Carlisle Millennium Project: Excavations in Carlisle, 1998-2001, Volume 2: The Finds Oxford, 687-705