A large number of such scraps were found at the Martin Site in Tallahassee
(Hernando de Soto winter encampment 1539-1540), and a few have come from
probable Soto-era sites up in NW Georgia.
John Worth
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:18 PM, geoff carver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My wife found some pieces of chain mail on her excavation; not whole suits,
> but scraps of various sizes. We were wondering if anyone knows of similar
> finds anywhere else?
>
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