09-15-2011, 01:59 PM
Yes, looks like that to me as well. If they were attached to the belt by a vertical thong around the belt itself, it could be a suspension device ? With the the open seam being used to release the suspended item( say a fire steel) by rotating the cylinder so that the thong would be released?
A reconstruction might give the answer...or at least a possible hypothesis!
A reconstruction might give the answer...or at least a possible hypothesis!