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  2. List of medieval armour components - Wikipedia

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    Bands of plate that cover the shoulder and part of upper arm but not the armpit. Pauldron: 15th: Covers the shoulder (with a dome shaped piece called a shoulder cop), armpit and sometimes the back and chest. Gardbrace: Extra plate that covers the front of the shoulder and the armpit, worn over top of a pauldron.

  3. Pauldron - Wikipedia

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    A pauldron (sometimes spelled pouldron or powldron) is a component of plate armor that evolved from spaulders in the 15th century. As with spaulders, pauldrons cover the shoulder area. [ 1 ] Pauldrons tend to be larger than spaulders, covering the armpit and sometimes parts of the back and chest.

  4. Plate armour - Wikipedia

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    The use of steel plates sewn into flak jackets dates to World War II, and was replaced by more modern materials such as fibre-reinforced plastic, since the mid-20th century. Mail armour is a layer of protective clothing worn most commonly from the 9th to the 13th century, though it would continue to be worn under plate armour until the 15th ...

  5. Brigandine - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of a late 15th-century Russian warrior in kuyak from Wendelin Boeheim's Handbuch der Waffenkunde [12] 19th-century artist's interpretation (likely erroneous) of the kuyak armour In Muscovy , there was a type of armour known as the kuyak , believed to have Mongolian origins [ 10 ] [ 13 ] and analogous to Central Asian, [ 14 ] Indian ...

  6. Baldric - Wikipedia

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    A cavalryman wearing a mail shirt with a baldric over his right shoulder, from the Roman Tropaeum Traiani, built 109 AD in the area of present-day Romania. U.S Army band baldric A baldric (also baldrick , bawdrick , bauldrick as well as other rare or obsolete variations) is a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon ...

  7. Gothic plate armour - Wikipedia

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    High Gothic armour was worn during the later 15th century, a transitional type called Schott-Sonnenberg style was current during c. 1500 to 1515, and Maximilian armour proper during 1515 to 1525. [1] Towards the late 16th century, so-called half-armour ( Halbharnisch ) would become increasingly common, eventually diminished itself into the ...

  8. Gousset - Wikipedia

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    By the early fifteenth century the use of gousset was generally restricted to joints such as the hip, neck, armpits, and elbows. It declined in Italian white armour as improvements in armor design covered these areas with plate. Gousset was nearly absent from white armor by 1450, but remained in German Gothic plate armour throughout most of the ...

  9. Scale armour - Wikipedia

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    The armour was made from small plates of iron or bronze. Due to the semi-rigid nature of the armour, the Scythian variety was made as breast- and back-plates, with separate shoulder pieces. Some finds indicate partial armour, where a leather shirt or similar garment has sewn-on scales in places, particularly around the neck and upper chest.