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Roman copper alloy lorica squamata
Three scales with slightly rounded lower edges, overlapped to right. They were laterally secured by wire of flat rectangular section with ends overlapped at back. The holes are pierced in vertical pairs at the middle of each edge, suggesting that they belong to the semi-rigid Corbridge/Mušov type, where instead of the scale being wired only to its horizontal neighbours and then sewn to a backing, it was also wired to the one above and the one below as well.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
54.389A/5.1
Find Information
Site Name: Bear House Field, Caerleon
Grid Reference: ST 33 91
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1954
Notes: field adjoins the south-west side of the legionary fortress : 'A' material is from the culvert
Measurements
length / mm:17
width / mm:10
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