Nasal helmet
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The nasal helmet was a type of combat helmet characterised by the possession of a projecting bar covering the nose and thus protecting the centre of the face; it was of Western European origins and wa
Helmet of Saint Wenceslaus, Prague
The knight at the centre is wearing a flat-topped helmet. Murder of Thomas Becket, manuscript c. 1200
René d'Anjou Livre des tournois France Provence X Ve siècle
Spangenhelm
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The Spangenhelm, or segmented helmet, was a popular medieval European combat helmet design of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. They are often contrasted with Eastern lamellar helmets.
Nasal helmet
…head protection, replacing previous types of helmet whose design was ultimately based on Late Roman types such as the ridge helmet and early helmets of spangenhelm construction. Early nasal helmets were universally conical in shape. The skull could be raised from a single sheet of iron or be of composite, segmented…
A surviving Spangenhelm, 6th century (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Spangenhelm (iron), Migration Period - Museum of the Cetinska Krajina Region - Sinj, Croatia
Sarmatian warriors with Spangenhelms, Trajan's Column (around 110 A.D.)
warriors in the Kizil Caves, following the events of 552 Turk uprising and the subsequent Turk expansion. 2nd half of the 6th century AD. The helmet is a characteristic pear-shaped segmented helmet of the Turkic type.