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General Category => Army Research => Topic started by: aligern on March 15, 2013, 11:03:53 AM

Title: 10th century Lombards
Post by: aligern on March 15, 2013, 11:03:53 AM
http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/Exultet_beneventano-Lombards-10C.htm
Posted on TMP by a chap called Druzhina and very interesting.
Note the vestigial cheekpieces, the lack of swords (surely just an artistic convenience) but correct  spearheads (well correct to time)
Roy
Title: Re: 10th century Lombards
Post by: Duncan Head on March 15, 2013, 11:37:23 AM
The way the "cheekpieces" extend under the chin, it almost looks like a plain conical helmet with coif, with the front edges of the coif being given a little point as a nod to classicizing.
Title: Re: 10th century Lombards
Post by: aligern on March 15, 2013, 03:13:04 PM
I thought about that one, but they are not shown as mail. They could, of course be coifs of leather or cloth, but I feel that I would need to see a bit more evidence to go that route. It is not uncommon for helmets in the Xth century to have a cloth that hangs from the rim so it could be something like that.
Title: Re: 10th century Lombards
Post by: aligern on March 15, 2013, 03:26:27 PM
http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/Montecassino-Lombards-11C.htm

These are meant to be a bit later and clearly some have hauberks.    They have a similar buttoned helmet style too.
Roy