Helmets were distinguished by crown’s and visor’s shapes. Helmet bascinet had multifarious variant of design and provided with good protection at the same time. This type of medieval helmet had high crown of spherical or conical shape. So great helms passed out of use by warriors.īascinet (or bassinet) replaced heavy topfhelms. Such design was defending at the highest level during the lance tilting on tournaments, but not during dismounted battles. Knights usually were wearing steel cervelliere with mail aventail under the topfhelm. The Great Helm suffered some changes in the early XIV century: protective face plate of harder metal had being attached to the metal conical-shaped dome. Generally, horsemen were using topfhelms, as this helmet had very limited visibility. As eye slits were rather narrow, there were additional ventilation holes on the front side. It could be decorated with additional cross plates. Facepiece of this type of helmet had cross-shaped protrusion. Since Crusades of the XII century, European knights were wearing pot helms (another names “Topfhelm”, “ The Great Helm”) during more than two centuries. This head protection was in use until the middle of the XVI century. Wide brims were lowered a bit, and sometimes had narrow eye slits. Chapel was made as roundish headpiece (slightly conical-shaped or bell-typed). Due to ease of making, helmet was so cheap, that even warriors from lower social classes were able to afford it. Just send picture with detailed description to, so we could quote you and discuss details of order.Ī kettle hat (also known as «Chapel-de-fer” and “Eisenhut”) is the simplest type of metal head protection, which looked like a hat with wide brims.
If you did not find required element of armour in this section, we can make it individually for you. After that, manager will contact you with measurement request and specification of order’s details. Once all options are chosen, please add item to the cart and make a payment. Depending on the complement, they are compliant to the standards and rules of such social movements, as SCA (The Society for Creative Anachronism), HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), HMB (Historical medieval battles).
We will help you to define your size, required model and its complement.Īll samples of head defense are perfect for participation in the tournaments of medieval fencing, bohurts, historical festivals and reenactment events. If you came across any problems when ordering, please do not hesitate to contact our manager.
Select metal for rivets and buckles (steel or brass).To order required model of bascinet, barbute or salad, you need to do few simple steps: Armour is based on the museum pieces, historical paintings and gravures. We manufacture helmets by individual parameters and personal regards of customer. Here you can find different models of head protection, which were used by knights in medieval Europe.
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