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Lamellar armour is a type of body armour, made from small rectangular plates (scales or lamellae) of iron or steel, leather ( rawhide ), bone, or bronze laced into horizontal rows.
Lamellar armour was one of three early body armour types, made from rectangular or vaguely rectangular armour plates laced into horizontal rows. The other two types are scale armour and laminar armour. Lamellar armour was used over a wide range of time periods in Eastern Europe, the Middle East...
Chinese armour. Ceremonial military uniform of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796), Musée de l'Armée, Paris. China has a long history of armour and weapons development. China has many varieties of armour, but the most common were of the lamellar, coat of plates, brigandine and scaled varieties.
Lamellar was a type of armour used in ancient societies all over the world from Asia to Europe. The earliest types of lamellar were made of bronze and were held together with lacing of varying types of leather, silk, etc. Later, the armour was made of iron and steel, but was still laced together.
Japanese lamellar armour (keiko) passed through Korea and reached Japan around the 5th century. These early Japanese lamellar armours took the form of a sleeveless jacket and a helmet. Armour did not always cover all of the body; sometimes no more than a helmet and leg plates were worn.
The lamellar helmet ( German language: Lamellenhelm, plural Lamellenhelme) was a type of helmet used in Europe during the Early Middle Ages. Examples are characterized by caps made from overlapping lamellar scales, in addition to a brow plate, cheek guards, and camail.
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In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, lamellar armor is only used by Cumans, and they are the sole source of it. Historically, even they had largely abandoned it by this point, instead being armored in a Western manner similar to the other soldiers of the Kingdom of Hungary.
