12-11-2006, 10:44 AM
There is nothing I can find to suggest that mail ever stopped being used. It was used continuously since they adopted it from the celts. Since mail is ridiculously easy to maintain and repair and a single shirt could last many generations of soldiers, it seems reasonable to assume that the reserves of mail continued to grow. Only through large military defeats and subsequent looting of bodies and/or prisoners by the enemy could mail reserves be reduced.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books