From Encyclopedia
- Backplate
- Plate armour defence for the back.
- Elbow gauntlet
- The cuff of this gauntlet reaches the elbow, replacing both the lower cannon of the vambrace and the couter.
- Spurs
- Y-shaped metal goads strapped to the heel, used to drive the horse on. Dating from early antiquity. Early medieval spurs were of simple prick type;…
- Shoulder
- The corner part of a sword. Connects a blade to a tang.
