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These three chain mail fragments were recovered during excavations at the Thompson site in Rice County during the 1986 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school. The chain mail consists of several individual rings, series of several rings linked together, and small masses of rings rusted together. The chain mail was brought to Kansas by Spanish explorers in the sixteenth-century. The site, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was a Great Bend aspect (ancestral Wichita) village occupied during the Late Ceramic Period.
Date: 1541-1720 CE
Item Number: 449009
Call Number: 14RC9
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 449009
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Military - Equipment
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Thompson
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
Thematic Time Period - Exploration, 1541 - 1820
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