Arms & Armour
Hauberk
Arms & Armour
Details
- Author / creator
- European, 15th century
- Object type
- Arms & armour
- Date or period
- 1400s
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 121.3 × 85.7 cm
- Place of origin
- European
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Art Fund grant and Friends of the Ashcombe Museum, 1916
- Category
- Armour
- Armourer's / maker's marks
- Augsburg pine-cone mark
About this object
A hauberk is a mail shirt commonly extending to mid-thigh. Mail, a type of armor made from interlocking iron or steel rings, was effective at protecting the wearer from the sharp cuts of a sword, and yet was less useful against crushing impacts from blunt weapons. A hauberk would have been worn over an aketon, a padded protective garment.
Materials and technique
Riveted steel rings
