Chain diameter is it ID or OD

[Dan Howard]

And I'll just bet that was one heavy shirt! hock:

I'd like to have the money to buy a solid gold hamata. Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't buy one, but I'd still like to have that sum of money.... :roll: :wink:

I doubt it would be in the form of a shirt. More likely to be ornamentation - jewellery. Some bright spark later saw the potential and experimented with bronze/iron.

To partially answer the original question, most archaeological reports list outside diameter measured parallel to the rivet.