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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 130. Not illustrated. Chapters: Boiled Leather, Scale Armour, Armet, Banded Mail, Sallet, Dō-Maru, Spangenhelm, Greave, Bases, Splint Armour, Mongolian Armour, Burgonet, Bracer, Vambrace, Kettle Hat, Nasal Helmet, White Armour, Poleyn, Chausses, Kasten-Brust Armour, Shield Boss, Ailette, Cuisses, Charles Ffoulkes, Visor, Arming Doublet, Tatami-Dō, Heater Shield, Spaulders, Sabaton, Rondel, Couter, Gousset, Guige, Pauldron, Aventail, Barbute, Almain Rivet, Schynbalds, Close Helmet, Rerebrace, Faulds, Enarmes, Cervelliere, Menpō, Jack of Plate, Bevor, Proofing, Besagews, Elbow Cop, Tassets, Mantlet, Vervelles, Rondache, Kurokote, Lame, Transitional Armour, Culet. Excerpt: Scale armour consists of many small scales attached to a backing material of either leather or cloth. It is similar to lamellar armour but distinguished by the presence of the backing material and being more flexible than lamellar. Scale armour was known to the ancient Romans as Lorica squamata, the Romans also had a variant called lorica plumata in which the scales were attached to chain mail. Scale armour is sometimes erroneously called scale mail. Scale armour is usually distinguished from related armours by the fact that the scales are exposed and visible. For example, the Brigandine and Jack of plate armours are made of small plates between cloth or leather. And it should not be confused with jazerant. The material used to make the scales varied and included: bronze, iron, rawhide, leather, cuir bouilli and horn. The variations are primarily the result of material availability. Scale armour is not of frequent occurrence on the grave monuments of the German frontier, but on the tombstones of the Sertorii at Veronaone that of a centurion, the other that of a standard-bearerboth figures are represented wearing a tunic of scale armour which covers the shoulders a...
