I just found these pictures:
http://www.tforum.info/forum/index.php?autoco...mp;img=410

According to the title (above the picture) it's in the Hermitage, but otherwise there is no information.

Anyone know something about it's age and culture?

There are more interesting pictures from other museums in that gallery as well, btw...

Looks like one of the scythian scale armours from the 5th to 4th century BC. The scales, belt and the shoulderguards look very typical for such an armour. The hole arrangement visible in some of the scales look like some other finds from scythian kurgans.

Need to know where it was found but agreed with Felix. It looks 5th-4th C Scythian. They were wearing the "Greek style" with the shoulder doublings around that time. It is curious that the torso scales are actually smaller than the shoulder scales. Usually the largest scales are on the torso. I'm wondering whether it was originally like the others in that photo set and the shoulder doublings were added later to help the wearer conform to the trendy new Greek fashion.

It is a scythian armor, I believe it's one of those found in Ukraine. I remember seeing it on a russian site but I don't remember which one. I have to search my archive.

After some research, these armours most probably are the two specimen found in kurgan 491 in Makeevka. The armour was removed from the grave en bloc, but the upper part was so much destroyed by grave robbers, that there is some incertainty about the placement of the fragments here. Only the front part of the armour was made of metal, only the lower end of the back was reinforced with a row of scales (row 14). In the inside rests of a leather garment with linen and coarse wool was found. The armour was dated to the (end of the) fifth century BC. Information according to Cernenko, Scythian armour.)

I believe Felix is correct - and I must say that seeing that armour up close in the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg is really interesting - photos, while good, does not really let you appreciate how impressive it is. When you imagine how it must have looked when it was not rusted, but clean and reflecting sunlight when worn by a mounted warrior...

Thanks guys, interesting stuff! I thought the Skythians mainly used lamellar armor rather than scale...

Some more Scythian scale armour. I think this is the Ukraine. http://museum.velizariy.kiev.ua/cherkas/cher_ant/index.html The cuirass is spread out underneath him with the outside facing up, with the oval shield underneath. The leg armour is laying sideways.
Here is a modern reproduction. http://www.tforum.info/forum/index.php?showtopic=33493