The fragment of armour from the Burana Tower museum in Kyrgyzstan

The fragment of defensive plated and chainmail armour from Kyrgyzstan is analyzed in the article. It includes five stripes, composed of iron rectangular plates with three rounded apertures along narrow sides, which are joined by the rings in several rows. In proceeding period this finding was discovered in Shamsi Ravine to the South from the Burana Village, located in the Chuy Valley. At the present time this fragment of armour exhibits in the Burana Tower museum in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. Based on extant part of defensive covering it is difficult to refer it to military armour. It is suggested in the article that considered fragment of armour can represent a part of defensive covering of horsecloth of militant horse. Similar horse armour horsecloths were used by heavy mounted warriors of the several Turkic and Mongolian nomadic people in the course of periods of the High and Late Middle Ages.