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Ken Rankin




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PostPosted: Tue 04 Apr, 2006 6:56 pm    Post subject: Looking for a helmet example         Reply with quote

Hi all,

Are there any historic examples of leather scale helmets, or are they limited to the worlds of fantasy?

Thanks,

Ken
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Shane Allee
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PostPosted: Tue 04 Apr, 2006 8:25 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

There are scale, or at least made to look like scale, helms depicted in Celtic-Iberian artwork. I don't know of any of these being found or even what they are commonly thought to be made from. So that might be a direction to look...

Shane
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Felix Wang




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PostPosted: Wed 05 Apr, 2006 11:39 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Leather is a major limitation. Helmets are known which were not of solid construction (i.e. the boars' tooth helmets, and at least one Celtic helmet of bronze plates), but leather scales are more difficult.
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