Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. costume components
7. armor components
8. breastplate components

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Object Groupings and Systems
4. object groupings
5. object groupings by specific context
6. costume groupings
7. armor groupings
8. armors
9. armors by function
10. field armors

Anotations

Scope note:

Pieces of plate armor attached to the breastplate, early in their development only to the lower half but later extending over the whole, doubling its thickness. They served as double pieces for both tournament and field armor, becoming increasingly common as firearms increased in power.