Roman and Byzantine Scale Armour

Roman scale armour. Scales perhaps 1/2mm thick, the visible part of each scale is approx 20mm long  x 10mm wide. Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (photograph by Steven Lowe)

X-Ray of a Late Roman scale aventail, found in the UK.

Scale armour discovered at a building site in Zeugma, in what is now Turkey. Probably Byzantine. The damage is from an earthmoving vehicle. This armour is what would described as "locking scale", in which the scales are fixed to each other using metal staples, as in the photographs of a find of Roman scale armour here.