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Examples of aventail
aventail
Spangenhelms may incorporate mail as neck protection, thus forming a partial aventail.
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A mail collar hanging from a helmet is camail or aventail.
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Mail was commonly used to protect the face, neck and cheek either as an aventail from the helmet or as a mail coif.
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Mail was commonly used to protect the face, neck and cheeks either as an aventail from the helmet or as a mail coif.
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The helmet was often complemented by chain mail, either as just an aventail to protect the neck and elbows or as a mask concealing the wearer's face.
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Mail armour was commonly used to protect the face and neck, either as an aventail from the helmet or as a mail coif like was used in Romano-Byzantine armies since 5th century.
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- Camail: a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck
- An aventail or camail is a flexible curtain of mail on a helmet that extends to cover the neck and shoulders. The mail could be attached to the helm by threading a leather cord through brass rings at the edge of the helm. ...
- The flap or adjustable part of the hood of mail, which when unfastened allowed the hood to drop upon the shoulders; The movable front to a helmet; the ventail
- A skirt of mail attached to a bascinet or armet during the 14th and 15th centuries. It defends the neck from attack, usually hanging to at least 1" below the shoulder point for bascinets. ...
- In maille armour, a flap that protects the lower part of the face. The aventail is usually tied to the coif (2) to keep it in place.
- A curtain of mail attached by means of staples around the base of a helmet. This protects the neck and the shoulders.
- Mail, attached to the bottom edge of a helmet, often by vervelles, covering the neck and shoulders
- Mail neck-defence attached to the lower edge of a basinet; smaller versions were attached to armets. In France referred to as a camail.
- A curtain of maille suspended from a helmet protecting the neck, throat and sometimes lower jaw.
