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 are applied semi-cylindrical plates to render hearing less difficult. Following the lower edge of the helmet is a series of very large hemispherically headed rivets which, though they serve no other purpose than that of connecting the skull-piece with the leather thong to which the lining was attached, seem to lend to the helmet an appearance of strength. These exaggerated rivets are constantly found upon head-pieces of about this time—the third quarter of the XVth century. They are to be seen on the little salade worn by that curious XVth century figure known as Jack o' Southwold in Southwold Church, Essex (Fig. 357). The figure holds a halberd in the right hand and a falchion in the left, which latter used to strike a bell at the hours, when the figure was part of the church clock. But, apart from the rivets, a general likeness to the salade in Viscount Astor's collection can be noticed in the salade worn by the Jack o' Southwold. The same large rivets are also to be seen on a war hat in Mr. Frank B. Macomber's collection in Boston, U.S.A., and in a later form upon the fine war hat in the Wallace Collection.

North Italian, probably Venetian. About 1490, with enrichments added in the XVIth century Formerly in the Collection Gatterburg Morosini, Venice

It is not so much in its form as in its decoration that the Hever Castle helmet is remarkable. A silent reminder of past pomp and grandeur,