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	Gorget - Age of Armour
		Though the design of this gorget was most heavily influenced by a German original from 1660 many similar types were seen throughout western europe from the late 16th century to the early 18th century.
		This gorget is very similar to the stainless steel one seen here.
		The roping is of a chiselled pattern common of the 17th century.
	www.ageofarmour.com /instock/mildgorget.html (225 words)

	Gorget of Honesty - UOGuide
		The Gorget of Honesty is part of the Virtue Set.
		To get the gorget you must complete the Seeker of Truth quest by turning in 50 Book of Truth to Menzzobaanea the Seeker of Truth.
		The Gorget is also available as an artifact in the anti-Virtue dungeons as part of the 10th Anniversary event.
	www.uoguide.com /Gorget_of_Honesty (114 words)

	A Simple Rapier Gorget
		Gorgets are often the most difficult piece of rapier gear to acquire.
		Metal gorgets, especially the spanish/italian style with front and back bibs, require more than passing competence to make and fit, and a decent metal shear to cut the pieces.
		The general gorget shape consists of a curved, contoured front plate, and a straight back plate, with a "lobster tail" extension to cover the cervical vertebrae, as shown in Fig.
	www.mrows.org /isles/gorget (0 words)

	OhioPix: Objects
		Gorget is a circular disk made of white marine shell.
		Slate gorget is roughly rectangular with short sides that curve outward and long sides that curve inward, forming a shape that resembles a bow tie.
		Gorget is a round, curved and cupped disk of very pale brown marine shell with one perforation in the center.
	www.ohiohistory.org /etcetera/exhibits/ohiopix/objects.cfm?start=361 (0 words)

	Gorget (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Figure 43d is a small shell gorget with the typical paired perforations placed at one edge.
		Such gorgets range from this small sized example to larger specimens with elaborately engraved designs measuring over 150 mm in diameter.
		Some of the finest Indian art work is represented by engravings done on this style of shell gorget.
	www.ou.edu /cas/archsur/OKArtifacts/shellorna.htm (420 words)

	Spider Gorget Lesson -- Illinois State Museum
		After reading the introduction, discussing the section on gorgets and trade in the Web module, and making the gorget, the students should be able to tell or write about the symbolism, trading for shell, the use of the object, and how archaeologists learn about such objects as this.
		Gorgets are pendants that are worn on the chest, hung from a string or a necklace.
		Ancient Native Americans made gorgets of rare materials such as copper or marine shell, which had to be obtained through trade.
	www.museum.state.il.us /ismdepts/zoology/spiders/Spider_Gorget_Lesson.html (708 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: COX MOUND GORGET
		The Cox Mound, or Woodpecker, gorget style is a particularly beautiful and enduring symbol of Tennessee's prehistoric inhabitants.
		A gorget was a pendant, or personal adornment, worn around the neck as a badge of rank or insignia of status and was thought to be symbolic of both earthly and supernatural powers.
		Other interpretations include the identification of the four woodpeckers as the four thunders at the world quarters, and a folklorist has speculated recently that the Cox Mound gorget style is a prehistoric expression of the Yuchi myth of the Winds.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=C157 (580 words)

	Digital Collection -Shell Gorget (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gorgets were worn as items of personal adornment by Native Americans as early as 3000 years ago.
		Many gorgets are of smooth stone that is ground and shaped into discs, squares, or other geometric shapes.
		The exact date of this gorget is unknown, though it most likely dates to the 18th century.
	www.memorialhall.mass.edu /collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=5963 (86 words)

	Gorget - LoveToKnow 1911
		During these times it gradually became a distinctive badge for officers, and as such it survived in several armies - in the form of a small metal plate affixed to the front of the collar of the uniform coat - until after the Napoleonic wars.
		In the German army to-day a gorget-plate of this sort is the distinctive mark of military police, while the former officer's gorget is represented in British uniforms by the red patches or tabs worn on the collar by staff officers and by the white patches of the midshipmen in the Royal Navy.
		This page was last modified 08:06, 17 May 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gorget (0 words)

	Leather Gorget-Leather Mantles-Leather Bevor-SCA Armor-LARP Armor
		Designed to follow the natural contour of the neck and shoulders, it is normally put on backwards, laced at the front, and then turned around.
		Constructed with the same quality leathers as all of our gorgets, this model features a side buckle strap, extended mantles to the front and back for protection due to a lower neckline.
		Similar in styling to the SCA gorget, above, this gorget was designed to work with a helm constructed with extended cheek plates, such as the Italian or Fantasy Armet, and with the possible inclusion of an aventail or mail coif, since there is no collar attahced.
	www.schmitthenner.com /neck.html (306 words)

	Part 47 - Gorget Patches (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There seems to be no direct evidence as to when the practice started, but from circa 1898 to 1909, Conductors and Sub-Conductors wore gorget patches on khaki drill, the patches being dark blue edged with 1/8 inch scarlet material, worn with AOD Departmental Gilt Buttons.
		Cloth Gorget patches were first worn in 1887 with the Khaki Drill Uniform, By general officers and certain staff officers in India.
		By 1913 Gorget Patches were being worn by all Staff Officers in certain appointments, even down to subaltern level.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mike.comerford/ORDNANCE/47.htm (0 words)

	S-261 Boxed Political Leader's Gorget
		The lighter bronze of the gorget surface showing slight soiling, and just a bit of variance in the tone of the bronze in various places.
		The gorget has the usual dark green wool facing on the reverse backing (looks absolutely un-used), with two small flat clips for attaching the chain.
		There is a partial split down from the top on the pointed front seam of the lower box section, but this should not increase given careful handling, and otherwise the box is very nice, complete with the original brown tissue paper.
	www.therupturedduck.com /WebPages/Misc/s261.htm (273 words)

	GORGET in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
		The Hebrew word thus translated (kidhon) really means a "javelin," and is so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) and the American Standard Revised Version here and in 1 Sam 17:45 ("Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin").
		Gorget, though so rarely used in Scripture and now displaced in our revised versions, occurs not infrequently and in various senses in English literature.
		In the meaning of "a piece of armor for the gorge or throat" which seems to have been in the mind of King James's translators, it is found in early English writers and down to recent times.
	www.bible-history.com /isbe/G/GORGET (206 words)

	Gorget - Definition, explanation
		Most medieval versions of gorgets were simple neck protectors that were worn under the breastplate and backplate set.
		In the Second World War, the military police of the German Army still used a metal gorget as an emblem.
		The red patches on each side of the collar of the tunic of a British army officer are called "gorget patches" in reference to this article of armor.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/go/gorget.php (293 words)

	Gorgets
		It measures 5-1/2 inches across and is larger than the average size of a gorget from this area.
		The rattlesnake emblem could have stood for a position in the village monarchy or was a status symbol.
		These gorgets were made and used all the way up to the historic period.
	www.artifactsetc.com /personal/gorgets.htm (381 words)

	Plate Armouring Journal: 16th century Gorget (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One other thing is the hinged/pivoting side of the gorget that allows it to open...
		I've only seen a couple pictures of these that show the hinge/pivot side, but the gorget is always closed so I can't really see what is going on with the hinge and pivot.
		I have two theories: one is that the pivot on the shoulder is actualy a sliding rivet, and my other theory is that the hinge might be on sliding rivets.
	mailmaker.tripod.com /armor/gorgeta.html (540 words)

	German Militaria
		The back of the gorget has a deep forest green pebbled cloth synthetic leather textured backing.
		This is the pre-war style with an unusual wing and swastika and the identification of the unit separately applied, seen in close-up here.
		The back of the gorget has a deep forest green wool felt backing.
	www.snyderstreasures.com /pages/germanmilitaria.htm (2466 words)

	Warelics Militaria Collectibles German Gorgets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The heart-shaped body of the gorget is made of nickel-plated Tombak with a separately-applied, rolled brass border (photo).
		There is a brass and enamel Wappen attached to the front of the gorget by four screw posts (photo).
		The gorget's detachable neck chain consists of brass links (photo), with a carmine-colored wool backing, which has some significant mothing (photo).
	www.warelics.com /Gorgets.htm (172 words)

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