A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 89
ike a tippet, usually of mail, and knownas the camail. In England, where visors were not always adopted,the helm was long retained and worn above the bascinet,which continued in use, with the camail, until the beginning ofthe fifteenth century: after that the camail was replaced bya steel gorget to… … appear to have long neglected them, but towards the close of thefourteenth century breast-plates and corslets came into use, whilelaminated shoulder-pieces and elbow-guards were substituted forthe earlier roundels. The overlapping narrow plates attached tothe lower part of the corslet, and forming,…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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