Armature XIV secolo

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Terra Teutonica 1360-1440's photos
Terra Teutonica 1360-1440's photos
Coat of plates, mail, gamboised cuisses, bascinet and a heaume hanging from his shoulders. ca 1340-45. Strassburg Frauenhaus-Museum. Sleeping soldier at the Holy Sepulchre',
European coat of plates from a mass grave, battle of Visby, fought in July 1361 on the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland, between invading Danish troops and the local, Gutnish, forces. The Danish won a decisive victory. Due to the heat, the dead had to be disposed of quickly, and many were buried in their armour. The archaeological excavation of one of the mass graves, in the 1930s, revealed over 1000 skeletons