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Posted by on May 28, 2008, 2:12 am
On May 28, 1:51=A0am, dicc...@radix.net (Richard Eney) wrote:
> In article <cb509dd0-f68f-4c1f-872c-5c719f22b...@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.=
com>,
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> >dicc...@radix.net (Richard Eney) wrote:
> >> > mirjam wrote
> >> >> dicc...@radix.net wrote
> >> >> Are there any pictures online or websites about the knotted armors?
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> This paragraph is the one I'm most curious about. =A0
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> >> >Just now i don`t know if i can find a picture, but i know that When we=
> >> >dug in some Crusader places, we found a rusted falling apart one and
> >> >was made with one contineous metal thread, it looked like they looped
> >> >it over some kind of stick, and than using a second one made the next
> >> >Row , twisting the over row into the under row . Like intelocking
> >> >twisting 2 metal springs on each other ,,,
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> What Crusader places did you dig in where you found a rusted falling apart=
> piece of armor made with one cotinuous metal thread looped together like
> interlocking two metal springs?
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> >Shikmona started in the Late Canaanite ERA [15 th cen BCE] and
> >findings go up to the early Muslim Era [7th cent CE]. =A0It had an
> >Egyptian , Pesian , Helenestic Roman etc,,, periods In the Byzantine
> >Era 4th -7th cent CE and than it was destroyed by the Muslim conquest
> >[638 CE] Christian travelers went through it and mentionin their
> >writing , and there are even some Christian burials , but no Strong
> >hold [ maybe they will find it ] BUt you have to remember that it had
> >a Crisdaers Castel to the South ATLIT , and a HUGE Crusaders
> >Settlement in Akko [Acre] , on the noethern side of Haifa Bay ...
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> >The armor i saw belonged to another Exhibition , about PIRATES ,,, in
> >the same museum .
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> Do you remember more about the pirate armor - such as how old it was,
> where it came from?
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> =3DTamar
strange i answered , but it doesn`t show ,,, have to go will reanswer
later .
mirjam
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