10-18-2011, 09:26 PM
I am smiling!
Many books suggest that Phillip's armour was covered in material and it is good to have you confirm it.
And I am pleased to see you acknowledge that vegetable tanned leather, whitened by alum, was generally used for armour. http://comitatus.net/pdfs/LEATHERARMOUR.pdf It certainly is the sensible suggestion.
I hope your few days were a success?
Many books suggest that Phillip's armour was covered in material and it is good to have you confirm it.
And I am pleased to see you acknowledge that vegetable tanned leather, whitened by alum, was generally used for armour. http://comitatus.net/pdfs/LEATHERARMOUR.pdf It certainly is the sensible suggestion.
I hope your few days were a success?
John Conyard
York
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York
A member of Comitatus Late Roman
Reconstruction Group
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.comitatus.net">http://www.comitatus.net
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalinterpretations.net">http://www.historicalinterpretations.net
<a class="postlink" href="http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com">http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com