Leather Armor? (NO HOLDS BARRED!!)

[Tarbicus]

Fair enough on the bodkin. I've also been reading up some more and it transpires that plate armour used by the French in the Hundred Years War had different thicknesses for different protective qualities over the body. The breastplate was thickest of all at the front and chest, whilst being thinner at the sides and back. Hence, the English archers seem to have attacked at the flanks in a likely attempt to penetrate the thinner plate?

Therefore, I'll concede the breastplate was better at stopping arrows (although I have yet to find a test conducted with the correct materiel using a bow of 450 N) at the front, but not at the sides or back.

Talbot at Castillon was found after the battle with "les cuisses et les jambes transpercees de fleches." Cuisses is also French for the upper leg, but in the context it is used it would most likely mean armour.

[url:kgtbowgy]http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/gamez_evans.pdf[/url] “it befell that an arrow struck him in the neck. He received this wound at the beginning of the battle. The arrow had knit together his gorget and his neck; but such was his will to bring to a finish the enterprise that he had entered upon that he felt not his wound…â€Â