Padded Armour

[Ross Cowan]

Methinks Mr McBride has been a tad over-enthusiastic in his interpretation of the Croy Hill relief. The left-hand figure indeed appears to show this square patterning in the area below the waist but I see little reason to doubt that this is simply a crude attempt to render layered pteryges of the sort seen on dozens of other reliefs.

Hi Mike,

McBride had nothing to do with the interpretation; he simply followed my brief for each plate. The Croy figure looks to me as if he's wearing something like an aketon rather than pteruges.

R!