05-19-2017, 08:13 AM
(05-18-2017, 10:08 PM)Dan Howard Wrote: I'd say that both were meant to be worn by people, not horses. I'd like to know how you can tell the difference in a two-thousand year old piece of leather whether it was deliberately partially tanned or whether it was initially rawhide that had been semi-tanned while buried.
Totally agree Dan...
3rd option is tannins used for deliberate colouring which can give false positives..
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
