gauntlets visby 14th century Tyr Legionaries wore tunics in various

Legionaries wore tunics in various colours

2 mm thick steel and are fitted with a textile inlay and leather straps for fastening

finished to exacting hardness standards

Lamps such as this were utilised from as early as the period of the Roman Republic

gauntlets visby 14th century Tyr Legionaries wore tunics in variousThese brigandine gauntlets are based on a find (no. 3) from the battle site of Korsbetningen (island of Gotland, Sweden), just outside the city walls of Visby, where an army of Gutnish yeomen and peasants fighting against the conquest of Gotland by the Danes was crushed by the forces of King Valdemar IV of Denmark (Valdemar Atterdag) on July 27th, 1361. These battle gauntlets are hand forged from 1. 5 mm thick steel. The small steel plates that form