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 the ocularium, which is unusually wide, and is formed by the space between the lower edge of the skull-piece and the top of the visor, in precisely the same manner as one sees in the case of the armets of the same period. Around the centre of the skull-piece is a series of hemispherically headed rivets which held the leather strap for the attachment of the lining. The small rivets upon which the visor is pivoted are the original ones. The surface of this fine salade, which has never had anything done to it, is now a russet-brown with a bronze-like patina.

Castle Donnington Church, Leicestershire. About 1455

Drawn about 1475. This portion of the drawing represents the battle of Shrewsbury, 1403

Next in the matter of date comes a group of salades, examples of which are shown in the British Museum, in the Tower and elsewhere, entirely forged from one piece. The ocularium in these is formed by a slit in the rim of the salade, which rim is broad enough to cover half the face. The ocularia served no useful purpose when the salade was worn tilted back on the head, as was customary when the wearer was not engaged in actual combat; but when it was drawn down so as to protect the face, the ocularia came into their correct position. Of these one-piece salades, we will first illustrate the example in the Wallace Collection, No. 31 (Fig. 366), not from