Laminar armour only of a breast-plate. While laminar armour was made from hardened seal leather and often knee long, or even longer. However late lamellar armour made from metal (iron or steel or even brass) and could be as long as laminar armour. Both lamellar and laminar armour usually were worn with a high collar (protecting neck and head) integral with one or two laminar pauldrons (used rather as shield than ordinary pauldron). This collar and its pauldrons usually were made from leather and wood. Usually at least one part of an armour (a pauldron) was laminar, but sometimes a pauldron was
Osprey body armour British type Camelbak or Bergen side pouch on the rear, and a respirator haversack on the bottom left. The armour system is not currently issued to personnel in the UK, and instead retained in theatre, and issued to troops during inward processing. Training is undertaken using earlier versions of Osprey. Kestrel was a similar body armour set and has been confused with Osprey with result that Osprey body armour was incorrectly labelled as 'Kestrel' in both photo captions and in article text. Both Kestrel and Osprey were introduced in limited numbers in late 2005/early 2006. Kestrel is a single piece