08-28-2010, 02:39 AM
What really fascinated me when I first saw it twelve years ago was that it was so well preserved that you could easily see tiny holes where rivets had been lost from some of the rings in antiquity. I had never hoped in my wildest dreams to see a mail shirt so well preserved. Plenty of surviving mail shirts from the centuries following the migration period look like little more than rather worn bricks which have to be closely examined in order to see the remains of the rings themselves. The state of preservation of the Arbeia shirt is truly remarkable.
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Who is called \'\'Paul\'\' by no-one other than his wife, parents and brothers. :!: <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_exclaim.gif" alt=":!:" title="Exclamation" />:!:
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