Mediaeval European leather armour

[Duncan Head]

"A poor man's armour? Late-medieval leather armour from excavations in the Netherlands" (pdf link)

This isn't a new article, but I hadn't come across it before. It's from a 2017 conference.

By the same author - "A rediscovered leather vambrace from Dordrecht"

[Erpingham]

This isn't a new article, but I hadn't come across it before.

We have mentioned it briefly.  It has a reputation in arms and armour circles for its imaginative reconstruction a childs training  armour from Valkenberg (fig 9 & 12). Others have pointed out these are in fact parts of a leather cuisse for an adult thigh.

[Jim Webster]

I found it fascinating. Especially the evidence of reuse