Roman and Byzantine Scale Armour by Steven Lowe |
Roman scale armour. Scales perhaps 1/2mm thick, the visible part of each scale is approx 20mm long x 10mm wide. Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (photograph by Steven Lowe) |
X-Ray of a Late Roman scale aventail, found in the UK. |
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Scale armour discovered at a building site in Zeugma, in what is now Turkey. Probably Byzantine. The damage is from an earthmoving vehicle. |