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Medieval and early modern fraud-prevention technique

Medieval and early modern fraud-prevention technique

Experts have identified the species of animals used for British legal documents dating from the 13th to 20th century, and have discovered they were almost always written on sheepskin, rather than goatskin or calfskin vellum.

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