Corbridge A Breastplates - to cross or not cross diagonally?

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

except thy are almost 2000 years old, are corroded together and not 100% intact? Who can truly say how they are supposed to fit? And is that the one where the hinges are riveted together so the hinge doesn't function? they are not new pieces by all account.

Yes they are corroded, but they didn't shrink. This isn't a t-shirt thrown in the dryer. There is no way that corrosion would make the pieces smaller. Just these breast plates. All of them more or less uniformly.

Face it the historical pieces can NOT fit together as Sean advocates. That is why he adjusts the sizes and shapes in order to fit his theory.

The mystery is why in this case he does not adjust his theory to match the evidence rather than the other way around.

Well, most armourer's would make armour to fit the intended wearer, so perhaps he has a good reason to make the plates larger, giving the size of some of his customers.......

A small bag of coins stashed by the armorer might be missed by the person who dumped it. Th armorer tells his lackeys to load some wagons while he heads out wit hthe main gear, and the lack looks in the box, says
'this pile of junk is going to slow us down, and it gets dumped....
so many possible reasons to dump junk.....
the 'good ' getting priority
or perhaps the coins were stashed by someone killed in a skirmish.....
or died of old age, and no one had really looked at this junk for a while, following Hadrian's reforms.......

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