I'm not sure what you are saying but if you are saying that the tortoise brooches were worn over the mammary because they are "bowl" like, this would be incorrect because there is a vertical pin in it.
-----Original Message----- Discoveries Not my era, but those tortoise brooches are all hollowed, right? Which argues for them being put over some convex body area. Also, I came across this interesting link: http://www3.baylor.edu/~Chris_Marsh/risala.htm In section 82 there are two references to females wearing metal or wooden "boxes" on, specifically, their breasts. Fran Beth and Bob Matney wrote: > There has been a bit of discussion about this on the Norsefolk_2 list. > Here is an image of her reconstruction: > > see bottom of http://www.uu.se/press/pm.php?id=48 > http://www.newsdesk.se/pressroom/uu/image/view/pm_vikingakvinna1-5825 > > Beth _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
