Table of Contents

Foreword - Quita Mould Warm and Dry: a complete Roman tent from Vindolanda - Carol van Driel-Murray A Romano-Egyptian cuirass and helmet made from crocodile skin: conservation and context - Barbara Wills Changing styles of Anglo-Saxon scabbards AD 600-1100 - Esther Cameron Fourteenth-century sword sheaths from Leiden city centre - Carol van Driel-Murray Leather plate armour in medieval Europe - Thom Richardson A poor man's armour? Late medieval leather armour from excavations in the Netherlands - Marloes Rijkelijkhuizen and Marquita Volken Taken for a ride? The case for a unique surviving leather horse bard of Henry VIII - Karen Watts Cuir Bouilli: fracture toughness testing of hide-based materials - Eddie Cheshire The leather equipment of the sixteenth-century 'mercenary' from the Theodul Pass, Zermatt, Switzerland - Marquita Volken Seventeenth-century buff coats and other military equipment - Keith Dowen Grips, sleeves and liners: leather on European edged weapons - Henry Yallop Cover-guard, copellet or chape: an overlooked component of medieval swords - Nicolas P. Baptiste Mamluk armour: leather lamellar cuirasses from Syria - David Nicolle Leather in Japanese arms and armour - Ian Bottomley Nature's defences: non-mammalian armour in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford - Helen Adams Leather in warfare - not all fighting - Yvette Fletcher No place to hide: a look at leathers in the Royal Armouries collection - Suzanne J. Dalewicz-Kitto

About the Author

Quita Mould is an archaeologist with expertise in archaeological leather and metalwork. She has a research interest in the finds from shipwrecks.