Late roman lorica hamata?

[Robert Vermaat]

How's your musculata coming on? :whistle:

Robert, the last time the musculata was seen in the Paradise Islands with my spatha drinking Pina Coladas :lol: ...

Well, at least you know where they are!! :whistle:

[daryush]

I'm afraid I disagree on that dan! You have to get quite close to notice the flattened part, whereas the fact that the rings are butted is quite obvious from quite some way due to the same ness of the rings!

I think Dan refers to some of the riveted mail currently for sale, which indeed can show very 'large' flattened parts, and don't look good. Indeed, Roman mail had alternating butted and riveted rings, if I'm correct.

Perhaps. I use a flat ring maille, on which it is less obvious. I agree, looking at some photos online of large sized round ring riveted links, I agree that some of them do appear to have a rather large flat area for the rivet.

Regardless, when doing living history I'd be much more comfortable pointing out to people the riveted structure rather than showing off butted links. I mean sure, the rivets may be wrong, and the watershed / metallurgy / etc may be wrong (and if I can explain why, then all the better), but it's still closer than butted maille IMHO.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

I agree entirely, Nadeem.

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Robert, the last time the musculata was seen in the Paradise Islands with my spatha drinking Pina Coladas :lol: ...

I hope they're not getting caught in the rain, they could rust!