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Nope, not at all. The armour only weighs about 30kg including the maille and is equally suspended from various limbs, shoulders, hips and back so it doesn't feel like you're wearing anything heavy at all. A 30kg backpack (fairly minimum British army standard for a soldier on deployment) would feel far heavier than a full suit of armour. :)

Thank you :)

Old Buhurt armour. Watch my latest reel for authentic armour

This was my first armour designed for Buhurt fighting so the gaps weren't a priority for this harness.

Hope you enjoyed !

Thank you, I really appreciate that :)

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy I am really enjoying your videos

Knights like to see

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy yea, but getting stabbed in the face kinda sucks though....

Armour is a constant trade-off of protection and mobility

Haha well there was quite an overlap where armour was still necessary for about 200 years after the adoption of muskets

At places like West Kennet there has been food remains such as bones which have had signs of butchery on them in the same chambers as where they buried their dead. The bones dated to a few hundred years meaning that feasting like this had been going on for several generations. We have also uncovered multiple roundhouses where humans funerary remains were found underneath the central hearth. Roundhouses only had one room so people were clearly sleeping in the same room with the body underground.

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy I said food remains within the tombs imply eating at ceremonies at the time of burial and maybe anniversaries. It is widely known of burials within roundhouses that may become barrows. But you implied in the video that people slept in chambered tombs with the dead which is a fiction.

The surcoat is worn to identify the knights heraldry so they would have been a common and vital component of armour during this period.

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy yeah yeah, im just sayin that shiny looks better, but in mid of battle, i would rarther have that XD

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No he opted not to wear one for the reenactment battle. If it were a real battle then he may have worn one

that is game of thrones music though?

Gorgeous isn't he

Wow that's very early. If you found dates back to 1146 then you'd probably be able to find information on the Domesday book of 1086

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That happened all too often.

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Does look pretty impressive

Haha that is true.

Ayy thank you :)

We have a lot of surviving evidence that they commonly would ditch the bevor. So yes, a knight with this armor would likely own a bevor, but may have decided to forgo or remove it for any number of reasons.

Funnily enough he did decide to ditch his bevor on that day because it was quite hot and his maille standard was enough protection for him on that day :)

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy Sounds reasonable. It was just after he put his helmet on the unarmored gap of his neck jumped out at me.

@@awilk418 Makes sense. I'm just used to armoring jousters, where neck protection is emphatically not optional.

@@davemccracken3457 Definitely well into the time period where tournament armors were becoming more and more specialized. I wouldn't even want to joust with a sallet and bevor, much less sans bevor lol.

Thank you I appreciate that :)

Rabbits went to the pub??

@AlexTheHistoryGuy ha ha no, I think they ended up in the pot

From my research I read that an initial tsunami caused by a break of ice displaced the flora and fauna (including humans) but then rising sea levels meant that the area became less and less inhabitable. I may be wrong though! Always happy to learn :)

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy oh I didn't say that as clear as I could have. I'm not saying that there was not a tsunami before the deluge there was but then a deluge as you say. The Garden of Eden likely tells a story similar to what happened to doggerland and is now likely under the Persian Gulf. The Sumerians are likely the people who walked out of the garden of Eden as their language was not related to their neighbours. The story of Noah's Ark is likely recording the same deluge after the last ice age, not a global flood but a massive local flood. It must have been devastating.

This is cavalry practice to help the horses get used to being in close proximity to other mounted knights and get used to the sound of metal clashing together.

Ayy music to my ears, thanks a lot! Hopefully many other videos of mine will interest you too :)

Yes indeed they did! We even have a few original surviving pieces such as Sallet helmets from the 1490s which had marvellously ornate paint jobs on them. Google "Leeds Royal Armouries black sallet" for an example.

Ayy very good, well I'm glad you enjoyed!

Let me know what you think!!

No that's not true at all. I have friends in the reenactment world who make their own clothing from scratch and use authentic dyes using authentic recipes from the period. There were tonnes of colours and colour dye imports was a massive industry in the medieval period. Some colours were more obtainable than others depending on cost and location but most colours (blue, red, green, lime, yellow, orange, beige, purple, pink, black, grey, white) were available to almost everyone right from the bronze age to the modern day.

It is indeed a great county

Ayy thanks mate

Thank you :) I had been curious about great Yarmouth having a castle for a while because it was such a rich and important town - those walls alone wouldn't have provided enough fortification

Haha yes I also don't care for those videos where someone is just talking to a camera and doesn't actually show you the thing they are talking about! I'm only in front of the camera when I'm kitted up in medieval armour!

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If I had the money spare I would definitely procure an authentic and functional Uruk-Hai armour.

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy would be awesome for sure Even a digital mockup could be great just to see