- Cuirass
- From the 'Armourers Album'
- Knight arming
- Brass of Sir John de Creke
- Sixteenth-century Suit of Plate
- Horse Armour, sixteenth century
- Cuissard for the off hock
- Harnischmeister Albrecht, 1480
- Saint George
- The Westminster Helm
- The Brocas Helm
- The Barendyne Helm
- The Fogge Helm
- The Workshop of Conrad Seusenhofer
- Arming a knight for combat in the lists
- Coif of Mail
- From Romance of Alexander, Bib. Nat., Paris, circ. 1240
- Brass of an unknown knight
- Padded 'harnische-kappe' and helm showing the attachment of the cap, after Dürer
- Sallad with cover
- 10th Century soldier
Figure of Goliath, from a Latin Psalter of the tenth century in the British Museum Additional MS., No. 18,043. The hauberk is coloured blue in the original, apparently indicating chain-mail. The curious combed helmet is of the same hue, clearly implying a defence of iron. - Anglo-Saxon soldiers
Another group from Cotton MS., Claudius, B. iv. - Anglo-Saxon Spearmen
Anglo-Saxon spearmen, from the fine manuscript of Prudentius in the Tenison Library. Date, the beginning of the eleventh century. The drawings are in pen-and-ink only, but very carefully executed: the later subjects by a fresh hand, but all Anglo-Saxon work. - Anglo-Saxon warriors
Group from Cottonian MS., Claudius, B. iv., folio 24: Aelfric's Anglo-Saxon Paraphrase of the Pentateuch, &c. Date about 1000. The crowned figure in the centre appears to be armed in a coat of chain-mail - A Sprinkle or Hand-Flail of bronze
From the Museum of Mitau in Courland - Swords
Fig. 7. Norwegian Sword. The pommel and cross-piece are of iron. Figs. 8 to 11. From Livonian graves : the originals are in the British Museum. Fig. 10 is single-edged : its pommel and the chape of the scabbard are of bronze. Fig. 11 has its pommel and guard ornamented with silver - Swords
Fig. 1. Found in the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Fairford. It measures upwards of 2 ft. 11 inches, and is one of the finest examples extant. Fig. 2. In the Hon. Mr. Neville's collection : found in the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire. Length of blade, 2 ft. 7 in. It retains the bronze mountings of the sheath, which have been gilt. Fig. 3. Same collection and find • a specimen re-markable for the cross-piece at the hilt. Fig. 4 Ancient-. Irish Sword of the same period : length, 30 inches. From Mr. Wakeman's paper in vol. iii. of Colleetanea Antigua. Fig. 5. Danish sword with engraved runes : in the Copenhagen Museum. Fig. 6. Danish : from the Annaler for Nordisk Oldkyndighed. Remarkable for the form of its cross-piece - Civic Guard of Ghent (Brotherhood of St. Sebastian)