The Armour Archive

Egfroth

Osprey's "Armies of the Crusades" has a photo (on p. 15) of an effigy of a knight from the late C13, fom Magdeburg Cathedral with a square lappet front and rear. As the Teutonic order was founded in 1189/90 and continued into at least the 15th century, you are completely justified in using one as a ...

Egfroth

I seem to recall that muscled breastplates _were_ made as parade armours in the 16th and 17th centuries. You might get away with that, and salve your artistic conscience at the same time.

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Miniature from the Large Heidelberg song manual Folio(?) 106. Find from London - ceramic phase (period? style?) II - 1350-1400. Material Vegetable tanned leather 2mm minimum thick. Waxed thread and two needles as used by Shoemakers/orthopedic supply makers. a handful of clear bone-wax (??) A funnel ...

Egfroth

May I suggest you browse through the art section in your local library? I looked through my collection of pictures by Albrecht Du"rer, who is an exact contemporary, but no luck in what you wanted. You might also try Breughel, or others from the same general period. Pictures in art books, particularl...

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A single-masted brigantine is a confusion in terms. By definition a brigantine (or "brig") is a two masted vessel, square rigged on both masts, with the after (mizzen/main) mast taller than the foremast. A fore-and aft spanker (yes, that's its name) on the after mast as well as the square sails. The...

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OK, here goes. I have a book called "Early Mediaeval Art" by John Beckwith (Thames and Hudson, 1969, 1985) which contains pictures of a number of Frankish crowns from the 9th to the 12th century in pictures of Frankish Kings, Saints and of course King David - I counted at least 8 of them - plus the ...

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Sasha,

Sorry - I'm a slacker. I'll have to remind myself to chase this stuff up. Leave it with me, and "soit patient" - I will deliver in the long run.

A' biento^t,

Egfroth

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As far as I recall, the Coppergate helm uses what are called _blind_ rivets. Do not countersink, but drill with a bit the size of the head you want, far enough into the metal to make a "stepped" hole - ie small diameter all the way through, large diameter approx 1/3 way through the first layer of me...

Egfroth

I'll have a look among my photos - I'm sure I have a few somewhere around. I'll be happy to send them to you if I can. Sorry,can't scan pictures at the moment.

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Egfroth

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I saw some incredibly fine scale armour in Edinburgh museum. So thin, with such fine scales, I found it hard to believe that it was armour at all. I believe it was Roman. It appeared to be bronze. Trajan's column (at http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/It...

Egfroth

Traja's Column shows Dacian infantry and archers with no armour at all. In battle they wear kneelength tunics and trousers similar to those worn today. Their cavalry, on the other hand, have scale armour - both themselves and their horses - the representations seem a little unlikely - the men and ho...

Egfroth

Pretty as these helmets are, keep in mind that they are a modern person's interpretation of a mediaeval original, not the original itself. You'd be better getting hold of primary source photos. Not many available on the net, but there _are_ such things as books (!) ------------------ Egfroth "Power;...

Egfroth

he best thing, of course, would be to refer you to photos of actual helms from the archaeological record or from contemporary illustrations. However, access to these on the net is somewhat difficult to getKiev helm the Wenceslaus helm on Halvgrim's site at http://web.missouri.edu/~rls555/RUSH/helms....

Egfroth

Oh, probably. Never used it, but I've heard of others who did. What diameter are the holes in your plates?

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Egfroth

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Egfroth

If you're looking for basic info, probably one of the best sources is "Arms and Armour of the Mediaeval Knight" by Edge and Paddock. It gives a good standard overview of the evolution of armour from about 800 to about 1500 in Western Europe, century by century, with illustrations taken entirely from...

Egfroth

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Halvgrim: is engraving period? i didnt think it was, i know they did the wire enlays and castings but i dont recall any engravings, enlighten me my Emporer http://www.armou...

Egfroth

There was a horse armour of leather scales found at Dura Europos in the Holy Land, dated (I think) to about the 3rd century AD.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Brodir: . Perhaps if you used a small hammer to add a 'dimple' texture to the plates between the spangens, like you see done with copper plates and stuff all the time (no histo...

Egfroth

Have a look at http://www.armourarchive.org/essays/
here are two articles ther - one on how to make butted mail, one on rivetted mail.

Easy peasy.

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Not that long ago I saw some documentation on a surviving piece of slashed and puffed (woollen)clothing which said that the edges were kept from fraying with wax melted into the edges.

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On the other hand, nice woollen clothing and restricted airflow make for a particularly mediaeval body odour, particularly if you have it on for several days, and you don't keep taking it Offenbach on again all the time. ------------------ Egfroth Power! It corrupts! I can FEEL it! see my webpage at...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bjorn: Egfroth, Quit teasing us about it or I'll have to post the pictures of you in the blue plastic armour. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Bjorn<HR>...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Alcyoneus: Perhaps the reason the Saxons lost at Hastings was because they had no helmets, after all, earlier today I read that only 4 examples of Anglo-Saxon helmets exist tod...

Egfroth

Maybe they got it from what they call "fairy chimneys" in Kappadokia. See http://www.geocities.com/egfrothos/FairyChimneys.html Actually, I only know of one ancient Greek helmet that was phallic. The Spartan helmet was just a simple cone, the Corinthian covered the whole head. The Thracian, Boetian ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Halvgrim: --ahhhhh, Irish you know me i want it done correctly, i want to be able to say i have as authentic kit as possible (not to mention i might want to wear it at Hast...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by freiman the minstrel: I think the coppergate seems to be the right choice. I stated something unclearly, and thus got it wrong. What I meant to say is that Evans stated that...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by freiman the minstrel: Guys, I think we may be mistaken in recomending a spangen. (snip!) By British helm finds I mean only the Sutton Hoo helm and the Magnificent Iro...

Egfroth

Shoelaces? Venetian blind cord?

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There is an article by Craig about how to make that snazzy lamellar shoulder piece, if anyone's interested. It was published in the "Varangian Voice" some years ago.

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The first Viking raid on Ireland was within 5 years of the Lindisfarne raid of 793AD. Over the following couple of centuries, the Vikings became a very definite presence in Ireland, founding the trading towns of Wexford and Dubh Linn (Dublin). An irish warrior of c. 800 would probably not have been ...

Egfroth

I did a google search on the article you originally requested, and though the main page is accessible at http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Armour.htm , the page you wanted came up "not available". But he had a link to http://www.bumply.com/Medieval/Kit/kit.htm which might fit your requirements....

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Saverio, It's not one or 2 pages, and it's about 50 years too late, but have you looked at de Liebaart's page at http://home.tiscalinet.be/liebaart/ridder_e.htm ? It walks you gently through the whole arming process for 1300. Get rid of the ailettes and the coat of plates and you're pretty much righ...

Egfroth

Usually called a spear butt. They do exist in the archaeological record, usually simple cones made of sheet steel, though others have been found of different construction. Pretty rare, though.

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Peter's article is very thoroughly researched, and raises some important issues. However it doesn't account for round-topped lamellae with the banding behind them, as shown at http://www.culture.gr/2/21/218/218ci/00/l9-1.html , as Tim's does. I've come down on the side of Tim's reconstruction - I'm ...

Egfroth

There has been a certain amount of confusion on this - mainly because after H2K was such a success, English Heritage was talking about doing them every 2 years, but nothing seems to have come f it. There is apparently (Guhroth knows more about this) a smaller scale one every year, but the next BigOn...