The Transition of Maile

[martijn.wijnhoven]

wait, what about this here:

https://bookandsword.com/2016/07/09/the-...t-studies/

The latest volume includes things like:

    Two examples of Roman lorica hamata squamataque preserved as a whole (rather than as loose scales or small clusters of scales), one of which was preserved with its linen liner. To my knowledge, this is the first archaeological evidence for mail with a lining in the Roman world.

anybody got that journal?

The hybrid armour (consisting of an inner layer of mail and an outer layer of small scales) that was found with a textile liner is that from Vize, Turkey.
 
I offer the following information about this feature in my latest paper:
“Possibly the most telling feature of the Vize armours excellent state of preservation is that the textile liner is still present. The textile was made of a medium coarse linen of a brown-beige colour that was sewn to the mail links at various points on the armours edges. The linen was not of a high quality and it was only properly fixed in a few places, which raises the question of whether it was another‘quick fix’, or whether it was supposed to be the actual finished liner.”
 
Source:
Wijnhoven, M.A. 2016: Putting the Scale into Mail: Roman Hybrid Feathered Armour, Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 17: 77-86.
 
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Best wishes,
Martijn