Cabasset helmet
This pikeman’s helmet was used during the Civil War. It is part of a large stock of armour which was kept at Exeter’s Rougemont Castle until around 1800.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A4415
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- ironcopper alloy
- Common Name
- cabasset helmet
- Simple Name
- armour
- Period Classification
- Charles I (1625-1649); Commonwealth (1649-1660); James I (1603-1625)
- Production Year Low
- 1615
- Production Year High
- 1640
