The least numerous, but most impressive cavalry were the cataphracts. A fully equipped cataphract had a bronze or iron helmet, perhaps with neck guard, a lamella, mail, or scale cuirass with arm and thigh guards attached, leg defences of mail or laminated strips, and mail-reinforced gauntlets. The horse wore a caparison of iron or bronze scales with further armour on the neck or head.

[…]; thus they have made Gallus their geese-god, Wendilin their sheep-god, Eulogius their horse-god, Antonius their swine-god, &c. Rochus their plague-physician and protector, Appollonia their tooth-ach doctrix, John a god of the Epilepsy, Eutropius of the Hydropsy, and Dame Catharine is lady of the mid-wives, &c.

‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’

Bot Bruce was knawin weyll ayr off this kynrik; For he had rycht, we call no man him lik. Bot Wallace thriss this kynrik conquest haile, In Ingland fer socht battaill on that rik.