03-09-2014, 09:41 AM
Quote:Just a thought (can`t get these helmet out of my mind, it seems). Doesn`t the iron nasal guards of the so-called Christie`s helmets look surprisingly thin for protective purposes? I think the genuine surviving gilded silver sheathings of nasal guards must have had sturdier iron backings?
Maybe the central ridge provides sufficient stiffness.
It may also be a crumple zone designed to stop a sword cutting into the face as with the cheek pieces a horizontal sword strike can only go so far.
Conal Moran
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