A History of Lamellar and Scale Armour in the West

[Dan Howard]

I don't think there was much difference in its construction. A lot of Roman mail was pretty heavy and perfectly capable of stopping arrows. Mail continued to be made of alternating rows of solid and riveted links. The only real difference was in coverage. By the end of the 11th century, Western European and Middle Eastern heavy cavalry wore mail that covered pretty much all of the body.