09-12-2007, 10:24 PM
Quote:The fact that it protects the riders face makes the combination of Boetian helm and neck guard seem like a medieval sallet and bevour...that is pretty much correct - Xenophon speaks of the neck guard coming up to the nose. Neck-guards of this type are known from tomb finds, including one found in grave 'B' at Derveni in Makedonia, made of leather covered in bronze scales c.350 B.C.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
