The way I see things mail was much more versatile than most people give it credit for. It was able to be a fairly heavy defense by doubling up the links or increasing the thickness or making the rings smaller in diameter of the same thickness wire you could get a lighter one by doing some of these in reverse. The Royal Armouries has some lovely mail shirts that were not intended for war but for security around town under your clothing. Might not stop more than an arming sword but for what it was created for that was enough.
Got to look at this in person. Not only is it a mix of 1 in 6 and 1 in 4 but also round and flat links.
Here is the one Russ found but I cannot be certain of my info on where it was at yet. cItation I have states the Kavarna, Bulgaria Museum but I thought Russ had said Hungary. So go with my citation.
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