Harness

Harness is a term used to describe a full suit of armour. Typically it applies to plate harness.

A typically mid to late 15th century harness would include:

• helmet - head
• bevor - throat
• standard - neck and throat
• pauldrons - shoulders
• breastpplate - chest
• backplate - back
• plackart - abdomen
• fauld - waist
• tassetts - upper thigh
• cuisses - thighs
• poleyns with wings - knees
• greaves - lower legs
• sabatons - feet
• gauntlets - hands
• vambraces - forearms
• couters with wings - elbows
• rerebraces - upper arms