Munition armour
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Munition armour was mass-produced, cheaply made armour produced in very large quantities at the beginning of the 16th Century and stockpiled in arsenals to equip common foot soldiers.
Munition armour was of a standard pattern with interchangeable pieces. It was invariably made of iron or sometimes an alloy of iron containing a small amount of phosphorus, which gave a marginal increase in hardness. [1] The phosphorus content may have been due to the use of high-phosphorus ores or the use of coal in smithing. [2] Munition armour had much less hardness than the type of plate armour worn by knights.
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- ^ Royal Armouries: 8. The metallurgy of plate armour. Royal Armouries. Retrieved on 2008-02-16.
- ^ Lev, Yaacov (1997). War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7th-15th Centuries. BRILL. ISBN 9004097775.
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- Woosnam-Savage, Robert C.; Anthony Hall (2002). Brassey's Book of Body Armor. Potomac Books, Incorporated. ISBN 1574884654.
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