Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Ring cuirass, Sudan, 1744 AD (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Any armour is better than no armour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Eh, yes and no...

Protection is good; but If it's cumbersome enough, it could limit your mobility and put you at a disadvantage against more mobile opponents or multiple assailants.

There's always trade offs; you've just gotta judge whether they benefit you in the situation.

Police officers could wear a hundred pounds of body armor and rarely have a bullet get through; but they'd be too weighed down in everyday patrol to catch criminals when they run, and that's a lot of bulk in their way when going hands on. Trade offs.