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Birrus

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A birrus or birrus brittanicus was a rainproof, hooded woollen cloak (or simply a hood alone), characteristically worn in Britain and Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire and into the Middle Ages.

A mosaic at Chedworth Roman Villa shows a Briton wearing a birrus brittanicus there is also one shown on a statue of a ploughman at the British Museum.

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Birrus Wikipedia