This heavy duty leather armour is made from 5mm hardened leather plates. Has over 280 individual plates. Each plate has been wax and heat treated to get the best resilience and performance. Chocolate brown in colour.
Lamellar was often worn as augmentation to existing armour, such as over a maille hauberk. The lamellar cuirass was especially popular with the Rus, the Scandinavian settlers of Russia, as well as Mongols, Turks, Avars and other steppe peoples as it was simple to create and maintain.