Open helmets, of iron or steel, with a horizontal or downward-sloping broad brim running all the way around, sometimes pierced with an eye slit. They were worn by infantry and besieging forces, more rarely by knightly classes, from the 12th to the 17th century.
AAT
3000201774
chapels (kettle hats)
chapels de fer
chapels-de-fer
hat, kettle
hats, kettle
hats, war
shapewes
war hats
war-hats
12yrs ago
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