Roman Chainmail

[Crispvs]

There is a fragment of mail in the museum a the Lunt with extremely small links. Through the glass it as difficult to gauge the size accurately but Robinson said that the rings are 3mm in diameter and are in alternate rows of punched and rivetted rings. As Robinson always uses external measurements the internal diameter would be somewhere around 2mm. He says that a similar piece was found at Mainz and that neither are 'torn' fragments and suggests that they might have formed parts of sleeves (I assume that he means in the underarm area). The card in the cabinet at the Lunt says that the fragment there probably formed part of a face guard, but I am not sure what they base this statement on.<br>
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