The Armour Archive

juan

"Curator's Corner" from the British Museum "Though a great number of exceptional objects were found in the mound at Sutton Hoo, none have captured the public imagination like the Sutton Hoo helmet. And tonight, for the first time in 10 years, we got to get the incredibly delicate helmet out of its d...

juan

These are two items of clothing from a Spanish conquistador from around 1560, found in 1930 in one of the "grave fields" of the Chicama Valley, on the northern Peruvian coast, by archaeologists from the Munich Ethnological Museum. My source for the images is a facebook posting by Arqueohistoria Andi...

juan

Am I mistaken, or aren't those meant to be worn over a regular bascinet sans visor, or at least a cervellier?

juan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=johsROyZLSk

juan

I think the two parameters are a bit much. Let people search by time period and let them decide whether a group is "serious" or "fun" enough for what they want/need. Also, the time periods are too narrow at the upper end. I think most people will simply look by century or general time period --"medi...

juan

When Jehan first offered these some years ago I bought a bunch of several denominations. They are exquisitely done, and I highly recommend Jehan as your source for replica coinage.

juan

Samwell, have you glanced through this thread on the "I Want To Be ..." board?:

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50677

Of course it mostly deals with kit, but there are some reading suggestions and links in there that may perhaps prove fruitful to you.

juan

Samwell Langdon wrote:The cooking and maintenance is mostly for myself, sadly lacking in valets and other service personnel,

juan

Yes, keep us updated, please!

juan

From Vice Media. They don't use the term, but I'm guessing it's Battle of the Nations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDDBL7jNew

I'm sure folk here will recognize one or two faces.

juan

neat!
cool find.

juan

Described as "A look into the world of Historical European Martial Arts, where a community revives centuries old martial arts based on the research and study of period source material. It's actually pretty good. I enjoyed it. It was interesting to see where the field has headed since I last played a...

juan

There was one from the 2006 Schola St. George Pas D'Armes in Dallas. I liked it because I was in it.

Unfortunately it was lost in a server crash of the SSG website a few years later.

juan

Indeed. Also some things don't work because, out of concern for safety (and, honestly, expense), we don't tend to use the correct equipment. Wood wasters, rattan batons, shinais, and so on just don't behave the same way as steel swords. They make it harder to bind the opponent's weapon, and moves wh...

juan

NICE!!

How long is that ridge pole?

juan

The evolution of an SCA fighter goes something like this. I call it the 5 stages of becoming a hater of SCA (or other armored combat group. Feel free to insert HEMA, LARP or other acronym). STAGE 1: The Honeymoon Mundane individual sees really cool demo/event/practice and decides "Hey I want to do ...

juan

But here is my problem. I look at many of the techniques in that video and think "That would be really stupid thing to try" There are several techniques that *only* have a chance because the 'opponent' is standing there and watching as the 'attacker' takes forever to do anything. .... I wanted to a...

juan

But here is my problem. I look at many of the techniques in that video and think "That would be really stupid thing to try" There are several techniques that *only* have a chance because the 'opponent' is standing there and watching as the 'attacker' takes forever to do anything. I mean who thought...

juan

Hugh Prescott wrote:If you have not read the book on the Visby excavations it is worth a read. .

Vol. I of the 2-vol. 1939 edition is online: http://www.scribd.com/doc/103290601/Arm ... y-1361-t-I

juan

Corrected. Thanks.

juan

Not sure whether this has been mentioned yet:

VICE Media feature on the 2014 2013 BOTN, in which the USA team features prominently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbG_ktYFNPE[s][/s]

juan

Russ, go here http://anthro.amnh.org/pacific and enter armor as the search term. That'll produce a page with images of a number of items, including ones not on display to the public. A few of them have close-up and zoomable images of the knotwork.

juan

And, some shark teeth-edged weapons from Kiribati:

juan

From the Moro Sultanate (The Phillipines):

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From Kiribati (Gilbert Islands):

juan

From Borneo:

At first I thought that the helmet was made from sea turtle scutes, but I think it could also be pangolin scales. It didn't have any notation accompanying it. (Are there pangolins in insular SE Asia?)

juan

From Celebes:

juan

I took these photos last week at the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

From Bali:

juan

http://cphpost.dk/news/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-flint-axe-near-roedbyhavn.11756.html "Thanks to the unique preservation conditions, we have found a lot of organic material during the digs. We had also found several special items such as an oar, two bows and 14 axe shafts, but when we found an...

juan

That's beautiful. If you were in the US I'd take it off your hands in a flash at that price.

Good luck with the sale.

juan

I've not done SCA combat but when I was training with the Schola Saint George, one of our foundations was Fiore's segno , in which he spells out the following: http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/liberi/images/sette_spada.jpg None can bring a more daring heart than me, a lion And I challenge anyone...

juan

IL PROSSIMO EVENTO «ARMIZARE» SI TERRÀ A SAONARA (IN PROVINCIA DI PADOVA), SABATO 18 E DOMENICA 19 OTTOBRE 2014. L'evento avrà luogo nella prestigiosa sede di Accademia Cavalleresca, in Via Frassanedo 88 - 35020 - Saonara (PD). È possibile partecipare solo ad una delle due giornate al costo di € 25...

juan

Sorry... I just had to.

juan

Is there any link to the 1990s' Company of St. George?

juan

Cool find!

Sutton Hoo helmet

Conquistador's clothing

Re: Who here uses a Great bascinet?

NGS video on the Talhoffer Ms.

Re: Need Help with Impresion/Group website

Re: The Compaignye Store Replica Medieval Coins

Re: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know

Re: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know

Re: God bless Western museum curators

Tournament video - BOTN?

Re: BOOM!

"Back to the Source" -- HEMA documentary

Re: What's your favorite fighting video?

Re: Understanding period manuals

Re: I made a tent!

Re: Heavy Fighting: Questions From a Confused Outsider

Re: Understanding period manuals

Re: Understanding period manuals

Re: medieval dead - Visby

Re: Feature on BOTN 2013

Feature on BOTN 2013

Re: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands

Re: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands

Re: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands

Re: Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands

Re: Armour from Indonesia

Re: Armour from Indonesia

Armour from Indonesia and other Pacific islands

Danish rchaeologists unearth 5k y.o. flint axe

Re: Selling: Sharp Rondel Dagger dropped price again £35 O

Re: Timid fighters..

HEMA Course in Italy (Padova) Oct. 18-19, 2014

Re: Never gonna do it without the fez on

Re: St. George Pas d'Armes at Great Western War

Re: ww2 it is a ral monster!