The Armour Archive

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Hi all, So this is something that got found at the site where I was working this summer. Thought you all make like to take a look. This was found out of context (it fell out of a baulk wall), but is likely middle 13th to 14th century in date. http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs158.snc1/5...

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Hobnail . . . socks?

In other news, I hope to be able to do this if or when I can make it to Pennsic one year.

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I'll take the better AAMK and second on crecy and poitiers.

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Who currently sells good bascinets with switchable visors? I know Mad Matt has some really nice looking ones on his site for a really decent price, but I've heard that he isn't working any more.

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Slightly off time frame, but would splinted legs and full plate arms ever have been worn together, especially around 1360 +/- a few years?

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Dibs.

My head is somewhere between 23" and 23.5", is this about the right size helm once padding is applied?

Let me do some length/width/height measurements to confirm.

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Nah, that's what archaeologists are like sometimes. Sorry, I don't know details of the way the shield was found I haven't looked at the details of that excavation, but from what I've seen it was a well conducted excavation, especially for the time in which it was done (1939). They discovered and tra...

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You bring up a very good point. The shield probably WAS tooled and painted or stained . . . but all of the organic material is long gone, the shield fittings were found "suspended" in place by the dirt around them, still arranged in the same pattern as they had been on the shield. So, ther...

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Yw . . . and, Ronan, by the end of the 14th century some of the gallowglass positions were becoming a weird form of landed nobility, an office with set duties and responsibilities, and some of those positions did pass into the hands of purely Irish men, when they were the guys for the job, so you co...

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If you use the right materials, it will NOT kill you, even in the heat. LINEN IS KEY! It is amazingly comfortable in any heat, just as good as (in my opinion better than) underarmour and the like. Plus, with maille, you're going to need padding unless you just have a huge pain tolerance, it does nex...

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Which side? And what ethnicity? If you're Gaelic, including for example (but not limited to by any means) the gallowglass that were Robert the Bruce's personal troops at Bannockburn, the whole soft kit changes.

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First, a bit of history. The first Galloglass known to have been soldiers of an Irish lord were given to Aedh Ua Conchobair (aka O Conor, a personal favorite of mine because he had the good graces to burn the hall house at Kilteasheen where I worked at excavations) in 1259 after he married the daugh...

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PM sending.

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Ah, ok. That would explain why no university library in the state carries it.

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That's got the price tag of a true reference book . . . time to check the library.

Thanks!

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Hi all, I'm pretty well versed on most things early period, but have never studied much later medieval archaeology (a bit on architecture of castles and churches in Ireland, but that's it). Seeing all the pictures here, I'm starting to get curious about all the later period armour . . . so, I'm wond...

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Kohl's currently has a huge sale going on . . . mens' linen lounge pants (black and natural only, sorry) $15.

EDIT: Nevermind, those are blend.

Still maybe worth it for that price, though . . .

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I dunno, but he looks good.

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Still haven't gotten anything, despite multiple promises on his part to ship them. Just sent this PM to him, here edited slightly: "Dude, have you shipped my gauntlets yet? You seem to have had no problem finding time to cash my check, from the datestamp probably the very single day you got it ...

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Weight? Alloy? Wire gauge?

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Err to the larger side! Their stuff fits tight . . . sometimes too tight. I weigh 140 lbs, and I can't fit my knees into their size medium kneepads.

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I've got a friend who's looking for a custom ocular-style Norse helm for living history instead of SCA, probably in 16 gauge . . . would you be willing to take commissions for non-SCA helmets? And how much would you charge for one? Like this: m But without the spike on top, I don't know if he wants ...

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PM sent.

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What gauge rings?

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There's a size chart on the site. It seems to have worked well for me.

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Thanks . . . don't suppose you have links to the earlier version, though, do you? The ionar of the early middle ages?

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Slight tangent, but . . .

Don't suppose any of you would happen to have a pattern or instructions for exactly how to make a ionar, would you?

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Other helm tentative.

How big head does just under 29" fit?

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Could you send me pix of the helms?

Email is bamudd (at) gmail (dot) com

Thanks!

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It did, and I called them . . . it expired Friday and they were trying to figure out whether to renew it or not, which it looks like they did. Yay!

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This is most of the Warhammer Fantasy that I still have. A sale may be pending on the Chaos fantasy stuff, rest is wide open. Bretonnians: 1 x metal king on metal Hippogriff 1 x metal hero on metal pegasus 1 x metal sorceress on plastic horse 3 x metal bertrand the brigand and the friar tuck and lit...

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It's an old 5th edition rulebook for how to run siege battles and campaigns. It's several rulesets out of date, and there were HUGE changes between 5th and 6th edition especially in terms of army organization, but if you had a castle (I have one I'd sell you), you could pretty easily adapt the princ...

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6 Bretonnian knights of the realm and 10 archers sold, the rest are now unreserved, so let me know if you want a good sized force of Bretonnians.

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That's it . . . just a good condition PHB and a new condition DMG that has been owned but never used.

Copper Alloy Maille

History of Plate Armour?