Lietuvos archeologija

The article analyses late 14th – early 15th-century scale armour plates from the grounds of the castles in Vilnius. This as yet poorly investigated topic allows a broader survey of the construction and development of the armour of the Vilnius castle garrisons and the GDL army to be made. The amour plate analysis showed that the armour elements used by some GDL warriors in the late 14th – early 15th century had ties to the armour used in the lands of the Eastern Slavs and in Western Europe at this time and somewhat prior to it. Scale armour subtypes, which have no analogies and can probably be associated with local armour manufacturers, were also discovered.