WRITER'S GUIDE TO ARCHERY, THE by WADSWORTH JAMES E

Author:WADSWORTH, JAMES E. [WADSWORTH, JAMES E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: WRITING
Published: 2018-09-14T04:00:00+00:00

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Sometimes the padded jackets were stuffed with cloth, even mail and horn

(Strickland and Hardy, The Great Warbow, 269).

Mail armor is produced by linking rings of metal, usually iron or brass, into

a thick, flexible mesh. The weakest variety is the butted mail where the rings are

simply pressed together. Butted mail is

quite easy to force apart. The strongest

Butted Mail

mail was made of welded and riveted

rings which resisted being spread apart

and so provided good protection. The

quality of the mail varied widely based

on the type of metal used (i.e., iron, steel,

or hardened steel), the size of the rings,

the shape (flat or round), and whether

the rings were solid, butted, welded, or

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with a mixture of solid rings and welded photo/858961.

and riveted rings in a close weave that

made the mail thicker and more difficult

Riveted Mail

to be pried apart (Strickland and Hardy,

The Great Warbow, 268). This mail also

cost the most, and would be unavailable

to the common soldier.

The primary purpose of mail is to

protect against slashing cuts from blades.

In an age before anyone understood

about bacteria and antiseptics, infection

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protect against thrusting stabs, but it photo/907953.

provided very little protection against

blunt force. Consequently, those who wore mail often suffered broken bones,

bruising, and could even have the rings of their mail shirt driven through the

gambeson into their flesh.

Scale armor was basically overlapping rectangular pieces of metal, leather,

horn, or bone sewn to an underlying garment. Scale armor was used widely,

but was often replaced by either mail or lamellar armor because scale armor

was heavy, and it tended to restrict movement more than other types of armor.

Lamellar armor is very similar to scale armor, but the armor is not sewn

to an underlying garment. The overlapping scales are usually of leather or

metal and sewn tightly together in a way that allows for considerable freedom

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