Boar tusk helmet

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Thanks everyone for the help, especially Matt - I found the linked site very interesting and useful. I'm actually researching for a series of novels - the first is all finished and comes out in June, the second is at the editing stage and should be out in April 2009, and I've just started the third. All are set in the Bronze Age and follow the cycle of myths about the Trojan War, starting with the courtship of Helen ten years before the war. The reason I asked the question was to see if there was any particular armour the Trojans would have worn, as the third book is based on the events in and around The Iliad, so I'm trying to make the differences between Greeks and Trojans clearer. A couple of questions I have are about how common the figure-of-eight shield would have been and what was the most common sort of body armour - bronze, leather, layered cloth etc. Any help with these questions would be much appreciated.
Thanks again,
Glyn