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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Extremely rare Lorica plumata (feathered scale armour). The iron chain mail is covered with iron scales. Where the details are clear the upper edges of the scales had been bent back at right angles and drilled with four holes through which rings of the mail were passed before they were closed with a minute rivet. It is completely mineralised and when discarded was folded with the scales on the inside. Mid-1st century A.D.
Site Name: Usk, Monmouthshire
Notes: from fortress pit
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