06-04-2007, 12:29 AM
So, Paul, an essentially leather spolades also produces what we see on the pottery.........interesting !!
I suspect anything dense enough/hard enough to provide effective armour is never going to breathe well or even at all, so I think one just has to accept that ( and before someone says "mail" ,it is usually worn with a padding component, and is 'out of period' anyway )
Dan, if you start applying such rigourous criteria, then little or nothing can be accepted. As said elsewhere all we can do with so little hard information is proceed on "balance of probability." Otherwise, even if a fully intact corselet were found, one might argue that it is an exception, a one-off and not typical. ( whoops! Does the iron 'Philip' corselet from Vergina spring to mind?
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Any way, we are drifting off-topic. Can Giannis Matthew, Paul and others advise Archimedes with his construction, especially as he is going to attempt a difficult and complex composite technique ? I'd be interested too, as I am contemplating making one of these for my son's Hoplite impression.
I suspect anything dense enough/hard enough to provide effective armour is never going to breathe well or even at all, so I think one just has to accept that ( and before someone says "mail" ,it is usually worn with a padding component, and is 'out of period' anyway )
Dan, if you start applying such rigourous criteria, then little or nothing can be accepted. As said elsewhere all we can do with so little hard information is proceed on "balance of probability." Otherwise, even if a fully intact corselet were found, one might argue that it is an exception, a one-off and not typical. ( whoops! Does the iron 'Philip' corselet from Vergina spring to mind?
)Any way, we are drifting off-topic. Can Giannis Matthew, Paul and others advise Archimedes with his construction, especially as he is going to attempt a difficult and complex composite technique ? I'd be interested too, as I am contemplating making one of these for my son's Hoplite impression.
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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