Chain mail
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Mail is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh. It was widely used in European militaries from the 3rd century BC to the 16th century AD, while in
A 17th-century chainmail hauberk from El Bayadh, Algeria
The Vachères warrior, 1st century BC, a statue depicting a Romanized Gaulish warrior wearing mail and a Celtic torc around his neck, bearing a Celtic-style shield.
Fresco of an ancient Macedonian Greek soldier (thorakites) wearing mail armour and bearing a thureos shield
Mail armour and equipment of Polish medium cavalryman, from the second half of the 17th century
Hauberk
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A hauberk or byrnie is a mail shirt. The term is usually used to describe a shirt reaching at least to mid-thigh and including sleeves. A haubergeon refers to a smaller mail shirt, that was sometimes
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…use in industries such as butchery and as protection against the powerful bites of creatures such as sharks. A coat of this armour is often called a hauberk or sometimes a byrnie. The earliest examples of surviving mail were found in the Carpathian Basin at a burial in Horný Jatov, Slovakia dated in the 3rd…
Italian hauberk from the late 15th century
David removing a hauberk, from the 13th-century Morgan Bible
Detail of hauberk made in Nuremberg, Germany, c. 1350
King Arthur wearing a hauberk; frontispiece from Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.