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Armor > Gorget plates

Preferred term

Gorget plates  

Definition

  • Components of some close helmets and closed burgonets, protecting the neck, consisting of two or three articulated metal lames riveted at the front to the bevor and at the rear to the skull; also form the falling buffe for a burgonet [AAT]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Gorgerins, armor
  • GORGETS, GORGET PLATES
  • NECK-PIECES, GORGET PLATES
  • Neckpieces, gorget plates
  • PLATES, GORGET
  • THROAT-PIECES, GORGET PLATES
  • Throatpieces, gorget plates

Notation

  • 113830

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-B7F7HVL3-Q

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