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proceed to form an opinion by an actual examination of the hauberk. It is a shirt reaching to the knee, with long, wide sleeves, open at the neck both back and front. The rings are of circular iron wire, small in circumference and riveted. Portions of the left sleeve are badly torn. Now if we were guided by its shape, we might assign it to some date within the first half of the XIIIth century; but, as we have said, it is on the formation of its rings that we prefer to rely for settling the date. Frankly it is difficult