was of a type that was lifted on a hinge above the forehead, like those we have just referred to. When it was adapted to the skull-piece to which it is now attached it was made to work on pivots placed at either side of the helmet. That the additions made for lengthening the visor at the sides for this purpose are modern is apparent even in the illustration. At the same time must have been added the rivets with rosette-shaped washers that were fastened into the holes that once held the staples intended for the attachment of the camail. Strangely enough, exactly similar brass washer rivets were, until they were recently removed, to be found upon the Wallace bascinet formerly in the Meyrick Collection. The Tower bascinet, although composite, is one worth careful study; for both parts are individually pieces of great interest.
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Fig. 286. Bascinet helmet with hemispherical visor
Probably Swiss, about 1390-1400. Valeria Museum, Sitten, Canton Wallis, Switzerland
(a) Front view; (b) Profile view
The bascinet helmet formerly in the Sir Noël Paton Collection, now in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, is well known as having figured in publications on the Meyrick Collection and in many standard works (Fig. 281, a, b, c). At the first glance it would appear from its general form to be a salade of the celata type belonging to a later date; but on close inspection there will be found many points about it which prove that it was originally a visored bascinet made in the third quarter of the XIVth century, with a skull-piece very similar in shape and detail to the early Burgess bascinet in the British Museum (Fig. 261, page 228). First of all it will be noticed that the pointed apex, characteristic of these bascinets, has
