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 from a bascinet helmet made of alternate rows of riveted and solid rings. The representation of such a camail attached to a bascinet can be seen on the famous Dijon statuette of Saint George (Fig. 424); and even the fastening of the edge of the camail to the jupon by means of the groups of laces, is clearly shown. These laces, according to Victor Gay, were known in France later by the name of clavel. The Riggs camail is an example of chain mail of the third quarter of the XIVth century, without reproach and in its original form. Mr. Riggs purchased it at the sale of the Baron de Cosson Collection in 1893.

XIVth (?) century. Found in the foundation of an old house at Nottingham

Collection: Author. (Actual size of rings)

Certainly foremost among these shirts of mail that have been preserved complete and unaltered is that splendid late XIVth century hauberk,