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Pendent, Sabaton, Medieval, 14th - 15th Century

Copper alloy; 31mm/10.6gm

Con/ As Cast; unblemished green patina

Seller's Note/ What a very curious object, indeed! We have no real explanation as to why anyone would wear a miniature armor shoe...do you? :-)

A Sabaton was a flexible steel piece of armor that covered the foot of a knight. They started to appear from the mid-14th century onwards and were preferred by mounted soldiers as the feet would be at the perfect height for strikes from dismounted soldiers. Fourteenth and fifteenth century sabatons were made of riveted iron plates called lames and usually ended in a tapered point or poulaine that went (well) beyond the wearer’s foot. This end imitated a type of shoe called crackows, which were popular at the time. These ends could be removed when the knight dismounted.