10-29-2011, 07:09 PM
I think the helmet was the main protection used by the ancients in fact any helmet will become damaged if hit enough times, many helmets were beaten out into shape which did often create weakness.
Indeed if we look at the Coolus types shown in the H.R.Robinson book it becomes clear that many of these were hammered out and they all appear to have very much the same area of weakness one third up the side of the bowl.
However having said that the soldiers would have welcomed the fact of having one far more than being without any helmet at all not so much from the point of blows but from cuts to the head,
Indeed if we look at the Coolus types shown in the H.R.Robinson book it becomes clear that many of these were hammered out and they all appear to have very much the same area of weakness one third up the side of the bowl.
However having said that the soldiers would have welcomed the fact of having one far more than being without any helmet at all not so much from the point of blows but from cuts to the head,
Brian Stobbs
