lamellar armour

Full set of lamellar armour has not yet been found but individual scales were discovered in sizable quantity.

Lamellar armour reached Japan around the 5th century.

Armor included hardened leather scale or lamellar armour and mail.

Probably less common is lamellar armour, consists of small metal scales fastened together to provide protection and flexibility at the same time.

Japanese lamellar armour (keiko) passed through Korea and reached Japan around the 5th century.

The pre-samurai Japanese lamellar armour was called keiko.

These horses were well-protected and equipped, including lamellar armour with five parts to safeguard specific parts of the horse.

The heavy horse archers usually had mail or lamellar armour and helmets, and sometimes even their horses were armoured.

Hardened leather scale or lamellar armour was produced in Yeman, Iraq and along the Persian gulf coast.

Lamellar armour was often worn as augmentation to existing armour, such as over a mail hauberk.

The middle of the Heian period was when Japanese lamellar armour started to take the shape that would be associated with samurai armour.

Goguryeo armour was a type of lamellar armour, made of little steel plates woven together to make a flexible shirt.

Because lamellar armour was inherently less flexible than other types of protection the klivanion was restricted to a cuirass covering the torso only.

The armour in question may have been the lamellar armour mentioned above, or may not have been armour at all.

However late lamellar armour made from metal (iron or steel or even brass) and could be as long as laminar armour.

Another development was the increasing use of longswords and the progressive replacement of scale armour by mail amour and lamellar armour.

Finally by the end of the 16th century laminar and lamellar armour practically disappeared in the Middle East and Central Asia regions.

Lamellar armour was used over a wide range of time periods in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and across Asia, including Japan.

By the late Heian period Japanese lamellar armour developed into full-fledged samurai armour called Ō-yoroi.

The Scythians horse warriors appear to have used scale or possibly lamellar armour, evident both from contemporary illustrations and burial finds in the Kurgans.

In East Asian history laminated armour such as lamellar armour, and styles similar to the coat of plates, and brigandine were commonly used.

Chainmail, lamellar armour and coat of plates were the usual Scandinavian infantry armour before the era of plate armour.

The term has been used to describe the construction of lamellar armour, as well as the layered structures that can be described by a lamellar vector field.

Lamellar armour was one of three early body armour types, made from rectangular or vaguely rectangular armour plates laced into horizontal rows.

Lamellar armour is generally associated with the armour worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan, although it came to Japan from Korea.