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Encyclopedia > Lamellar

Lamellar armour is a kind of personal armour consisting of small rectangular plates (lames) which are laced together in parallel rows. Lamellar armour evolved from Scale armour. Developed by the Assyrians circa 900-600 BC, the style was used up through the 16th century.


See also: lamellar field


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Byzantine Lamellar Armour (1384 words)
In fragment D it appears that the edge of each lamella butts against the centre ridge of its neighbour in the row, as shown in Figure 2.
Though from a recent Tibetan lamellar cuirass in the collection of the State Ethnographical Museum, Stockholm, numerous medieval finds of lamellae have the same pattern of holes, and are supposed to have been fastened similarly.
The Krefeld-Gellup cuirass is not an isolated find, lamellar seems to have been briefly adopted by neighbouring Germanic tribes during the period of Avar ascendance.
Lamellar end grinding wheel - Patent 4679360 (3698 words)
Lamellar end grinding wheel according to claim 1, wherein at least one of a side of said back plate and said supporting plate associated with said rear ends of said grinding flaps are provided with projecting stamping points for engaging in said grinding flaps.
Lamellar end grinding wheel according to claim 4, wherein said grinding flaps have at least one slot-like recess in their rear regions which are passed through said radial slots.
Lamellar end grinding wheel according to claim 5, wherein said rear region of said grinding flaps is provided with projecting arms, said projecting arms engaging end faces of associated slots and extend over and beyond the longitudinal extension of the associated slot.
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