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Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Linen, Cotton wool, Silk, Leather
Measurements
635 x 625 mm
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Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1544934.3
Summary
Thick breast-plate piece of padded textile armour. Protective padding made from linen filled and padded hard with cotton, covered in the remaining fragments of gold/green coloured silk. The item has the remnants of leather straps and buckles at the top to enable it to be secured at the shoulder.