[Regia-NA] Mail Vendors

[TGS]

>Flat rings are punched out of sheet and that is a wholly different
>technological board game. Later and - in many cases - of foreign origin.
According to a report I have about the Gjermundbu shirt, the punched rings 
were swaged to give them a round cross section, to match the drawn 
wire-riveted rings.  The report is in Norwegian, and I'm working from a 
brief English gloss from the Author, so I don't have many more details than 
that.

Could 'cheaper' mail shirts been made from shirts with un-swaged links?  I 
dunno.  I'm told (by people who know a lot more about the Roman army than 
they probably should) that square section links are found in Roman era mail.

So how 'bout them apples?

Take Care,
Tom