1360's Gorget

captain_america · Post by **captain_america** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 8:45 am

Does anybody have a gorget that matches the Wisby coat of plates that they're willing to sell?

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Cet · Post by **Cet** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 2:11 pm

HI Cap'. To the best of my knowledge neck protection circ 1360 would have been provided by a mail coif, aventail, or perhaps a high collar on a aketon. Gorgets as we usually think of them don't seem to have been used. I would suggest going with something very simple that will disapear beneath a cloth or mail coif. GAA does a nice job on theirs and they usually have them in stock.

captain_america · Post by **captain_america** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 2:18 pm

Thanks for the tip.

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Brian
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Death is merely a cowards way out of responsibility.

captain_america · Post by **captain_america** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 2:20 pm

Cet,
Do you by any chance no what kind of leg armour they wore?

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Death is merely a cowards way out of responsibility.

Cet · Post by **Cet** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 9:14 pm

Judging by the number of wounds on the lower extremities of the skeletons at Wisby not much.

But contemporary leg armour would mostly be gamboised or splinted cuisses with simple globular polynes and schynbalds or frontal greaves. Depending on what area your representing early plate cuisses could be argued for, but I think you might be a bit early for that out side of Italy. There were some pieces of sabatons recovered at the Wisby site so those would be appropriate as well.