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| Ian Hutchison wrote: | | It is pretty sobering to realize that the proposed idea made it through the review process and out into academic literature... |
This is what happens when you don't babysit arts grads 
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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Craig Johnson
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| Posted: Fri 22 Nov, 2019 6:11 am Post subject: Excellent find in Norway |
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Excellent find in Norway using ground radar, ship burial in Edoy.
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Article in Norwegian
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Michael A. H.
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| Posted: Fri 22 Nov, 2019 6:52 am Post subject: above ship burrial |
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Wow - the LOA to Beam ratio looks wicked, more like a kayak ...
Michael
"Its just the laudanum speaking." Stephen Maturin
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Craig Johnson
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| Posted: Tue 03 Dec, 2019 6:28 am Post subject: Roman Mail Found |
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This is quite interesting a couple of elements of Roman Mail armor has been found under a fallen wall in a fort in Bulgaria. Here is link to article with images.
While they are in pretty bad shape they are impressive and seem to be mail over a leather base. This is a great find for those interested in this style of armor.
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Craig Johnson
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| Posted: Wed 04 Dec, 2019 8:08 pm Post subject: Wow Bronze shield parts |
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This is spectacular. I do not think we have posted on this prior but its pretty amazing work.
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Ralph Grinly
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| Posted: Thu 05 Dec, 2019 12:04 am Post subject: Re: Roman Mail Found |
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| Craig Johnson wrote: | This is quite interesting a couple of elements of Roman Mail armor has been found under a fallen wall in a fort in Bulgaria. Here is link to article with images.
While they are in pretty bad shape they are impressive and seem to be mail over a leather base. This is a great find for those interested in this style of armor.
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While a very interesting find of late roman armour..this article seems to me to be a bit of a mis-translation. It keeps referring to "mail" attached to leather. But if you read more..it's actually referring to "rectangular iron plates' attached to a leather undergarment in some way. To me, this is not mail in the normal sense, but something else. ? I suspect there's been a error in translation from the original language of the report into English ? What do others think ?
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Jonathan Dean
Location: Australia Joined: 16 Feb 2019
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I think you're right. Pictures like this:
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And this:
Appear to be hooped, or perhaps lamellar, armour rather than mail.
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Anthony Clipsom
Location: YORKSHIRE, UK Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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We are caught in a common trap. This is a piece written by a journalist, not a formal report by an archaeologist, archaeometallagist or whatever. It is therefore frustratingly lacking in the sort of information people here would be looking for.
The pictures seem to focuss on some quite large pieces, which I'd agree look like tubular arm armour and I'd possibly a segmented shoulder guard. But there are 6000 pieces, some of which are iron rectangles. It is possible that we have different components with different contruction methods e.g. tubular arm guards, shoulder pieces and perhaps a body of scales or lamellar.
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