Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The origins of mail armour
- 3 Distribution and archaeological context
- 4 The iconography of early mail armour
- 5 The naming of mail armour
- 6 Decoration in mail garments
- 7 Padded garments
- 8 The craft of making mail rings
- 9 Weaving patterns
- 10 The construction of mail garments
- 11 Ring characteristics
- 12 Final considerations
- Bibliography
- Database
- Appendix 1 Catalogue of mail armour
- Appendix 2 Catalogue of hybrid armour
- Appendix 3 Catalogue of isolated finds of fasteners and fixtures
- Appendix 4 Finds excluded from the database
Appendix 3 - Catalogue of isolated finds of fasteners and fixtures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The origins of mail armour
- 3 Distribution and archaeological context
- 4 The iconography of early mail armour
- 5 The naming of mail armour
- 6 Decoration in mail garments
- 7 Padded garments
- 8 The craft of making mail rings
- 9 Weaving patterns
- 10 The construction of mail garments
- 11 Ring characteristics
- 12 Final considerations
- Bibliography
- Database
- Appendix 1 Catalogue of mail armour
- Appendix 2 Catalogue of hybrid armour
- Appendix 3 Catalogue of isolated finds of fasteners and fixtures
- Appendix 4 Finds excluded from the database
Summary
AUSTRIA Bregenz 1 - Brigantium
Date: late Augustan - early Tiberian.
Context: Roman fort.
Description: damaged left S-shaped fastener.
Literature: Kopf 2015, 116-117, fig. 5.5; 2016, 245-246, fig. 3.15.
Bregenz 2 - Brigantium
Date: Early Principate.
Context: Roman fort.
Description: left S-shaped fastener.
Location: Vorarlberg Museum, Bregenz, inv. 12.98.
Literature: Deschler-Erb 1996, 83; Hansen 2003, 211 (cat. no. 9.32); Schimmer 2005, 612, pl. 10.3.
Bregenz 3 - Brigantium
Date: 15 BC-AD 15.
Context: Roman fort.
Description: damaged right S-shaped fastener.
Literature: Kopf 2018, 935, fig. 4.
Carnuntum 4 - Bad Deutsch-Altenburg
Date: 1st century AD.
Context: Roman fort.
Description: right S-shaped fastener.
Location: Museum Carnuntium, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, inv. 21901.
Literature: Beutler et al. 2017, 265-266 (cat. no. 346).
Carnuntum 5 - Bad Deutsch-Altenburg
Date: 1st century AD.
Context: Roman fort.
Description: right S-shaped fastener with central button.
Location: Museum Carnuntium, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg.
Literature: Beutler et al. 2017, 265-266 (cat. no. 347).
Carnuntum 6 - Bad Deutsch-Altenburg
Date: 1st century AD.
Context: Roman fort.
Description: right S-shaped fastener.
Location: Museum Carnuntium, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, inv. 21326.
Literature: Beutler et al. 2017, 265-266 (cat. no. 348).
Magdalensberg 2
Date: end 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
Context:oppidum and Roman settlement.
Description: S-shaped fastener.
Location: inv. TB 1987/II/74.
Literature: Deschler-Erb 1999, 38; Dolenz 1998, 83.
BELGIUM
Unprovenanced from Belgium
Date: start 1st century AD.
Description: right S-shaped fastener.
Location: Grand Curtius, Liege.
CROATIA
Ivoševci- Burnum
Date: 1st half 1st century AD.
Context: Roman fort.
Description: right S-shaped fastener ending in a horned animal head. Almost no decoration, except for two horizontal lines at its base. Size c. 6x5 cm.
Material: copper alloy.
Location: Archaeological Museum, Burnum.
Literature: Miletić 2010, 147 (cat. no. 11).
Salona 2 - Tilurium
Date: 1st century AD.
Context: Roman fort?
Description: right S-shaped fastener.
Location: Arheoloski Muzej Split, inv. AMS H-658.
Literature: Ivčević 2013a, 305, 310, pl. 2.21 (cat. no. 21).
Salona 3 - Tilurium
Date: 1st century AD.
Context: Roman fort.
Description: damaged left S-shaped fastener.
Location: Arheoloski Muzej Split, inv. AMS H-219.
Literature: Ivčević 2013a, 305, 310, pl. 2.22 (cat. no. 22). Salona4 - Tilurium
Date: 1st century AD.
Context: Roman fort.
Description: left S-shaped fastener.
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- European Mail ArmourRinged Battle Shirts from the Iron Age, Roman Period and Early Middle Ages, pp. 489 - 504Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2021