Peytrel

Gold Ornament Room, Case K. At the back of the Case is a piece of gold armour (plate x) formerly known as the Mold corslet, but now seen to be a peytrel (French, poitrail) or brunt for a pony. It is mounted on a copper […]

The following is the description of the peytrel given in the British Museum Guide to Antiquities of the Bronze Age, page 150——“It is mounted [in its case] on a copper plate as originally worn, fragments of the lining being shown […]

The pieces of plate armor that clad a demigriffin were first the peytrel, which covered the chest to shoulders to its midsection. The peytrel flared outward, steeply, with three Norlock and Nor'ock skulls gilded in gold fastened to the ...