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Coat covered with gold-decorated scales of the pangolin. India, Rajasthan, early 19th century Dacian scale armour on Trajan's column. Scale armour is an early form of armour consisting of many individual small armour scales (plates) of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing of cloth or leather in overlapping rows. [1]
The Yanghai leather scale armor is a piece of assyrian styled leather armor that was dated to be from the years 786-543 BCE in northwest China and was manufactured in the neo-assyrian empire. The leathered armor is made up of 5,444 smaller scales with 140 large scales making the total weight of the Yanghai leather scale armor to be 4–5 kg. [ 1 ]
A similar type of armour, in which the scales are laced to each other and need no backing at all, is known as lamellar armour, while to confuse the matter there is also locking scale in which the scales are wired together without a backing. It can be difficult to tell which type of armour a single scale might have come from, as the Romans did ...
Han dynasty lamellar armour. Chinese armour was predominantly lamellar from the Warring States period (481 BC–221 BC) onward, prior to which animal parts such as rhinoceros hide, rawhide, and turtle shells were used for protection. Lamellar armour was supplemented by scale armour since the Warring States period
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The Pitt River Museum has a Javanese scale armor made of horns. It is sleeveless and designed to resemble pangolin scales. [6] At the time of the Bubat tragedy (1357), it was noted that the Sundanese elite troops under the command of the patih Anepaken wore armor (sisimping or siping-siping). As written in the Kidung Sunda:
The armor was covered by 20 to 30,000 very small scales that were unlike any Roman scales. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] Each scale was folded to leave a 90° angle at the top. [ 3 ] Four small holes can be found in the ledge formed by the angle. [ 3 ]
Tameshi-gusoku — bullet tested armour; Gyorin kozane-gusoku — Scale armour; Nanban-gusoku — western-inspired armour; Okasi-gusoku — lending or borrowing armour or munition armour, usually made for ashigaru (it might be Tatami-do or any plain basic armour) often marked with clan insignia (mon). Uma yoroi, horse armour used in the Edo ...