11-28-2008, 03:54 PM
Peronis sells some suitable openwork plates made by Nodge Nolan. Have a look on his Armamentaria website or if you're not sure which plates are which I am sure he would be happy to post up a picture of an appropriate plate.
As a suggestion, you might not need to cover the entire belt with plates, as the far smaller number of second century plate finds, coupled with both the apparent lack of plates on third century belts, along with the facts that not all first century belts were completely plated and late second / early third century belts had consciously arranged sets of plates spelling out words, all suggest that a safe way to proceed with a mid second century AD belt might be to have just a few plates and a buckle, possibly grouped in such a way as to make a nice decorative spacing and / or grouping.
You might possibly think of half a dozen or less plates on the front and sides and none on the back or something similar. Unfortunately for that period we do not have the wealth of repesentational evidence to guide our interpretation as we do for the mid first century.
Crispvs
As a suggestion, you might not need to cover the entire belt with plates, as the far smaller number of second century plate finds, coupled with both the apparent lack of plates on third century belts, along with the facts that not all first century belts were completely plated and late second / early third century belts had consciously arranged sets of plates spelling out words, all suggest that a safe way to proceed with a mid second century AD belt might be to have just a few plates and a buckle, possibly grouped in such a way as to make a nice decorative spacing and / or grouping.
You might possibly think of half a dozen or less plates on the front and sides and none on the back or something similar. Unfortunately for that period we do not have the wealth of repesentational evidence to guide our interpretation as we do for the mid first century.
Crispvs
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