05-20-2014, 08:52 AM
Here is another interesting point about cavalry helmets and face masks where I was asked to make this Trimontium ( Newstead ) one, I had the great pleasure of being able to handle the original in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburg.
What I discovered was that it was ultra light weight and when making observations of it I found that there is a small crack near one of the heads of the two cupids, and the area I have marked on the bowl is only in the region of about 5 thousands of an inch thick.
This comes from the fact that the bowl was beaten out and the peek and neck guard are about 0.6 to 0.9 mm thick but it is much thinner at its upper area not the kind of thing that would stand up to much in battle.
It is a situation where such helmets would have had to be worn to be able to use such face masks.
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What I discovered was that it was ultra light weight and when making observations of it I found that there is a small crack near one of the heads of the two cupids, and the area I have marked on the bowl is only in the region of about 5 thousands of an inch thick.
This comes from the fact that the bowl was beaten out and the peek and neck guard are about 0.6 to 0.9 mm thick but it is much thinner at its upper area not the kind of thing that would stand up to much in battle.
It is a situation where such helmets would have had to be worn to be able to use such face masks.
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Brian Stobbs
