07-21-2011, 11:49 AM
Fighting on foot is completely different to walking to the battle. Those who wore this armour and fought on foot had horses. Fatigue would not be an issue in most circumstances.
I seriously doubt that you'll find any historical examples of this type of armour that weigh as much as the replicas. Reenactors don't like to continually fix their armour after each weekend of activity and so they tend to "over engineer" it. You definitely will not find 7-8kg of armour on the legs.
The armour in the test is dated at least half a century too late to be relevant to Agincourt.
There is no way to tell whether the armour on the legs caused the additional energy expenditure or whether it was the restrictiveness of armour on the chest, since they did not have a control for this. Likely it was a combination of both.
I seriously doubt that you'll find any historical examples of this type of armour that weigh as much as the replicas. Reenactors don't like to continually fix their armour after each weekend of activity and so they tend to "over engineer" it. You definitely will not find 7-8kg of armour on the legs.
The armour in the test is dated at least half a century too late to be relevant to Agincourt.
There is no way to tell whether the armour on the legs caused the additional energy expenditure or whether it was the restrictiveness of armour on the chest, since they did not have a control for this. Likely it was a combination of both.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books
