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Valsgarde-Style Vendel Helmet
SKU: AH6333This helmet is styled after the spectacular helmets recovered from the boat graves at Valsgarde, Sweden, one of the richest archaeological sites of the pre-Viking Vendel period (roughly 550-750 AD). Valsgarde’s helmets belong to the group of Nordic “crested” or “spectacled” helmets, distinguished by distinctive brow fittings and a crest ending in animal heads, closely related to the famous Sutton Hoo helmet found in England. This reproduction recreates that richly decorated Scandinavian helmet tradition, predating the Viking Age proper but foundational to the wider Norse martial aesthetic.
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Gothic Cuirass, Front and Back Plate
SKU: AH6329The cuirass sat at the core of the Gothic harness, its matched front and back plates enclosing the torso in a single anatomically shaped shell. Fluted panels running across the breastplate, a hallmark of the German Gothic style, added rigidity and helped glance away blows without the extra weight a flat, unribbed plate would have needed for equivalent strength. Crafted from 18-gauge steel, this piece provides comprehensive torso protection and forms the anchor point around which the rest of a full Gothic harness is built.
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Gothic Cuirass with Tassets
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Spartacus Gladiator Helmet, Thraex Pattern
SKU: AH6326Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator whose 73-71 BC uprising became the largest slave revolt in Roman history, is traditionally understood to have trained and fought as a Thraex before his rebellion began. The Thraex class carried a distinctive high crest, often shaped into a griffin, invoking Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance and fate closely associated with the arena. Spartacus's later fame as a rebel leader has made the Thraex helmet form he likely wore one of the most instantly recognisable pieces of gladiatorial equipment in popular imagination today.
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Archer’s Visored Sallet
SKU: AH6325The sallet (also known as celata, salade or schaller) was a war helmet that replaced the earlier bascinet across Italy, Germany, and much of western and northern Europe during the mid-15th century, first recorded in a 1407 Gonzaga family inventory. This version is styled for archer use, combining a moveable visor with the good visibility and ventilation an archer needed for accurate, sustained shooting. The sallet’s open, adaptable design made it a genuinely practical choice for archers, who needed clear sightlines that a fully enclosed helm would compromise.
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14th Century Hourglass Gauntlet, Pair
SKU: AH6324Hourglass gauntlets take their name from their distinctive shape: a cuff that narrows sharply at the wrist before flaring open toward the forearm, giving each gauntlet a silhouette like the sand-timer it’s named for. First appearing as mail gloves gave way to shaped steel plates through the 14th century, this style remained in circulation until the late 15th century, when narrower cuff designs began to replace the flared opening. This reproduction recreates that early plate hand armour form as a matched pair.
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Great Pot Helm, 16-Gauge
SKU: AH6327.16This 'pot helm' reflects an early, simpler form within the great helm family, its rounded, bowl-like profile predating the later flat-topped box style. The great helm arose in the late 12th century in the context of the Crusades and remained in use into the 14th century, its fully enclosing form offering superior protection against lance strikes. Worn over a mail coif or a separate close-fitting helmet, it traded mobility for maximum coverage, ideal for a mounted knight's initial charge.
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This unpainted Viking shield measures 90cm in diameter, built from 10mm thick wood with a steel boss and wooden grip, ready for your own personal design. Viking round shields were typically decorated by their individual owners, making each one a personal statement rather than a standardised uniform piece. A genuine blank canvas for a re-enactor wanting a historically accurate, personally decorated Viking shield.
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Great Helm, with Brass Fittings
SKU: XH017/AH4420This great helm reflects the fully enclosing knightly helmet that arose in the late 12th century, in the context of the Crusades, finished here with brass fittings. Its box-like, fully enclosing form offered superior protection against lance strikes once the couched-lance cavalry charge made face-level blows a serious hazard. Worn over a mail coif or a separate close-fitting helmet, it traded mobility for maximum coverage, ideal for a mounted knight's initial charge.
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Pig-Face (Houndskull) Bascinet, Standard
SKU: XH016/AH4422This pig-face bascinet reflects historical research into surviving originals, its distinctive projecting, conical visor resembling a hound's muzzle. This visor shape deflected blows away from the face while its pointed form encouraged the wearer's breath to escape downward, keeping the vision slits clearer than a flatter visor would allow. The type superseded the earlier great helm as the battlefield helmet of choice, prized for its genuinely superior flexibility and defensive qualities.
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The lobster-tail pot helmet, named for its articulated, segmented neck guard resembling a lobster's tail, was the signature cavalry helmet of the English Civil War (1642-1651). Its open face, typically fitted with a sliding nasal bar rather than a full visor, balanced protection with the visibility a mounted trooper needed. This helmet type is closely associated with both Royalist and Parliamentarian cavalry throughout the conflict that reshaped 17th century Britain.
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Great Helm, Classic Pattern
SKU: XH002This great helm reflects the fully enclosing knightly helmet that arose in the late 12th century, in the context of the Crusades, and remained in use into the 14th century. Its box-like, fully enclosing form offered superior protection against lance strikes once the couched-lance cavalry charge made face-level blows a serious hazard. Worn over a mail coif or a separate close-fitting helmet, it traded mobility for maximum coverage, ideal for a mounted knight's initial charge.
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Henry VIII-Style Close Helmet
SKU: XH001This close helmet draws on the armour style associated with King Henry VIII of England, whose reign (1509-1547) saw some of the most lavish royal armour commissions in English history. Henry VIII maintained royal workshops at Greenwich specifically to produce elaborate parade and field armour, some surviving pieces now held in the Royal Armouries and Tower of London. This close helmet form reflects the fully enclosing, fully articulated Renaissance helmet style favoured by the English court during his reign.
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Visored Bascinet, 18-Gauge
SKU: AH6332.18This visored bascinet reflects the classic rounded-skull Medieval knightly helmet, built here in a lighter 18-gauge steel specification. The bascinet evolved in the early 14th century from the simpler cervelliere skullcap, becoming the most widely worn helmet among European knights through the 14th and 15th centuries. A hinged, attached visor offered the wearer the option of full face protection or an open, better-ventilated view depending on the moment's demands.
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Archer’s Helmet, Open Pattern
SKU: AH6336This open helmet reflects the practical, economical protection worn by Medieval archers, whose need for a clear line of sight and good hearing shaped their equipment choices. Unlike the fully enclosing great helm favoured by mounted knights, archers generally wore lighter, more open helmets suited to drawing a bow and tracking targets. This form offered reliable protection without compromising the visibility and mobility an archer's role demanded.
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Roman Centurion’s Helmet, Classic Pattern
SKU: AH6334A centurion, commanding roughly eighty men within a Roman legion, was visually distinguished from the ordinary legionary by several marks of rank, and his helmet was chief among them. A transverse crest, rather than the front-to-back crest of common soldiers, immediately identified a centurion at a glance, even across the chaos and dust of a legion on the march or in formation. Finer decorative detailing further set a centurion's equipment apart, a visible reflection of both his rank and the greater personal expense he was expected to bear for his own gear.
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King’s Great Helm, with Crown
SKU: XH005This great helm is finished with a crown, reflecting the elevated status such a helmet would signal, befitting a king rather than an ordinary knight. The great helm arose in the late 12th century in the context of the Crusades and remained in use into the 14th century, its fully enclosing form offering superior protection against lance strikes. A crowned great helm carried real symbolic weight, marking its wearer as royalty even beneath a fully concealing visor.
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This bascinet honours Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, whose 1314 victory at the Battle of Bannockburn secured Scottish independence and cemented his place among Scotland's most celebrated monarchs. Finished with a brass crown and a mail aventail, this piece reflects the elevated status such a helmet would have signalled, befitting a king rather than an ordinary knight. The mail aventail, hanging from vervelles around the base of the skull, protected the neck and shoulders while preserving the bascinet's genuine mobility advantage over the earlier great helm.
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Medieval Armour with stand
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Wolf Cuff Pair
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Leather Cuirass, Cross Motif II
SKU: AH6522This leather cuirass carries a cross motif, evoking the imagery of medieval military religious orders such as the Templars and Hospitallers. This second version offers an alternative cut to our other cross-motif leather cuirass, for wearers or collectors seeking a distinct piece. Fully wearable, it suits a crusader or religious-order medieval impression.
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Leather Cuirass, Cross Motif
SKU: AH6520This leather cuirass carries a cross motif, evoking the imagery of medieval military religious orders such as the Templars and Hospitallers. Leather construction offers genuine torso protection at a fraction of the weight of a steel cuirass. Fully wearable, it suits a crusader or religious-order medieval impression.
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Celtic Helmet, Antique Finish
SKU: AH5506DCeltic helmets were common chiefly among the Gauls, particularly the upper-class warriors who could afford such high-quality craftsmanship. These well-made Celtic designs carried real influence beyond their own culture, shaping the helmet forms Rome itself would later adopt as its legions expanded across Western Europe. This antique-finished version gives the essential Celtic helmet form a weathered, aged surface treatment for a more archaeological display presentation.
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Medieval Heater Shield, Plain
SKU: AH3730This wooden shield follows the classic heater shape, the curved triangular form that became standard knightly shield equipment from the 12th through 14th centuries. Left plain, without heraldic decoration, it suits wearers wanting to add their own colours or a general medieval impression not tied to a specific coat of arms. A versatile foundation piece for building a medieval kit.
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Leather Greaves, Cross Motif, Pair
SKU: AH6508Greaves protect the leg, historically worn during the Middle Ages by soldiers and kings alike in combat. This pair carries a cross motif, evoking the imagery used by medieval military religious orders and crusading knights. Fully wearable, they suit a crusader or religious-order medieval impression, and pair naturally with our matching cross-motif bracer.
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Leather Bracer, Plain
SKU: AH6507A bracer protects the forearm, historically worn during combat by soldiers and archers alike across the medieval period. This plain version offers unadorned, straightforward leather construction, distinct from our cross-motif bracer. Fully wearable, it suits a range of historical impressions calling for simple arm protection.
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Leather Bracer, Cross Motif
SKU: AH6506A bracer protects the forearm, historically worn during combat by soldiers and archers alike across the medieval period. This version carries a cross motif, evoking the imagery used by medieval military religious orders and crusading knights. Fully wearable, it suits a crusader or religious-order medieval impression.
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Leather Bracer
SKU: AH6505A bracer protects the forearm, historically worn during combat by soldiers and archers alike across the medieval period. This version is worked in plain leather, offering straightforward, lightweight forearm protection. Fully wearable, it suits a range of historical impressions calling for simple arm protection.
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Leather Wrist Cuff, Triskele, Small
SKU: AH5534This Celtic wrist cuff carries a spiralled triskele, cast in fine antiqued brass and riveted onto high-quality vegetable-tanned leather. The triskele, a three-branched spiral, is among the most widely used symbols in Celtic art, its exact origins predating the Celts themselves and stretching back to pre-Celtic traditions found as far afield as Scandinavia and Iberia. The cuff is bordered in antiqued brass studs, in a smaller sizing for a closer, more compact fit.
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Leather Wrist Cuff, Norse Serpents, Small
SKU: AH5533This wrist cuff carries twin Norse serpents, cast in finely detailed antiqued brass and riveted onto the leather. Serpent and dragon imagery held real significance in Norse art and mythology, most famously in Jormungandr, the world-serpent, and in the carved dragon prows of Viking ships. The leather itself is thick, well-dyed, vegetable-tanned leather of genuine quality, in this smaller sizing.
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Leather Wrist Cuff, Floral Motif, Single
SKU: AH5532This wrist cuff carries a floral motif cast in finely detailed antiqued metal and riveted onto the leather. Floral and spiral patterning appears widely across Celtic decorative art, offering a softer visual counterpart to the animal motifs common on other cuffs in our range. The leather itself is thick, well-dyed, vegetable-tanned leather of genuine quality.
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Leather Wrist Cuff, Odin’s Ravens, Single
SKU: AH5531This wrist cuff carries Huginn and Muninn, the twin ravens of Odin, cast in finely detailed antiqued brass and riveted onto the leather. In Norse mythology, these ravens flew across the nine realms each day gathering knowledge for Odin, making them enduring symbols of thought, memory and wisdom. The leather itself is thick, well-dyed, vegetable-tanned leather of genuine quality.
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Leather Celtic Cuff, Wild Boar, Pair
SKU: AH5529The boar held particular significance in Celtic culture as a symbol of courage, ferocity and status, frequently depicted on weapons, standards and jewellery. This pair of leather cuffs carries that boar motif cast in detailed metal and riveted onto thick, vegetable-tanned leather. A matched pair, suited to a Celtic historical impression or general Celtic-inspired wear.
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Templar Helmet, Standard
SKU: AH4423This helmet reflects the equipment associated with the Knights Templar, the powerful crusading military order founded in the early 12th century to protect pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land. The Templars drew on the broader Northern European knightly helmet tradition shared by other Crusading forces of the period. The order grew into one of the wealthiest and most influential institutions of the Medieval world before its suppression in 1312.
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Imperial Gallic Helmet, Alesia Type
SKU: AH6322This helmet references finds associated with Alesia, the site of Julius Caesar's decisive 52 BC siege that broke the Gallic confederation under Vercingetorix and effectively completed the Roman conquest of Gaul. Alesia's extensive archaeological record, drawn from the vast siege works Caesar's own account describes in detail, has yielded significant equipment finds illuminating this pivotal campaign. As an Imperial Gallic-series helmet, it carries the family's characteristic embossed eyebrow decoration, the hallmark of the type's distinctive Gallic craftsmanship.
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This helmet reflects the equipment of Air Raid Precautions wardens, the civilian volunteers responsible for enforcing blackout regulations and coordinating local response during German bombing raids on Britain in the Second World War. Its distinctive blue colour, rather than khaki or steel-grey military tones, marked ARP wardens out as civilian defence personnel rather than front-line personnel. ARP wardens played a genuinely vital role on the British home front, patrolling streets during air raids, directing people to shelters, and reporting bomb damage and casualties to emergency services.
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Austrian M17 Helmet
SKU: AH4515The Austro-Hungarian Empire developed its own steel field helmet during the First World War, sharing broad design principles with the German Stahlhelm while remaining a distinct national pattern. Austro-Hungarian forces fought across multiple demanding fronts during the war, including the mountainous Italian front, where reliable head protection carried particular importance. This helmet reflects the wider European race to field effective steel helmets once the devastating toll of shrapnel and shell-fragment wounds became clear in the war's early trench warfare.
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This piece reproduces the experimental M15 Adrian helmet fitted with a facemask, designed by Dr. Polack, a medical officer stationed at Verdun during one of the First World War's longest and bloodiest battles. The added facemask reflects direct battlefield medical experience, an attempt to extend protection beyond the standard Adrian helmet's coverage to guard against the facial wounds so common in trench warfare. Few experimental designs like this saw widespread issue, making surviving examples and faithful reproductions a genuinely unusual window into wartime medical innovation.
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Gladiator Shoulder Guard, Brass (Galerus) II
SKU: AH6232BThis brass shoulder guard recreates the galerus, the raised armour piece that was the retiarius gladiator’s near-only protection, worn high over the left shoulder to guard the head and neck. Fighting without helmet, shield or greaves, the retiarius depended on the galerus and manica arm guard to intercept blows from his usual opponent, the heavily armoured secutor, while his trident and net worked from a distance. This brass finish offers a more reflective, decorative surface than the plainer iron or carbon steel versions in our range.
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Cavalry Half Armour
SKU: AH6133As plate armour spread through the 15th century, mounted troops below the rank of fully harnessed knight often wore a half armour, combining a breastplate and upper body protection without the complete leg harness of a knight. This cavalry half armour recreates that practical standard, offering meaningful torso protection suited to mounted combat while remaining lighter and less costly than a full knightly harness. It reflects the reality that plate armour existed across a real spectrum of coverage, not solely as the fully articulated suits associated with the wealthiest knights.
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“Viking” Winged Helmet, Novelty
SKU: AH3830A Novelty helmet mounted with wings in the popular imagined style of the 'Viking helmet' — worth being upfront that this has no basis in the Viking Age archaeological record.
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Buckler Shield, 12-Inch Diameter, 14-Gauge
SKU: AH4356From the 12th to the 18th century, the buckler earned its place as a versatile weapon, equally adept in defence and offence. Essential in both classical rapier play and I.33 sparring, it remains a popular choice for HEMA practitioners today. This 12-inch diameter version is worked in 14-gauge steel for genuine durability.
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Buckler Shield, 11-Inch Diameter, 14-Gauge
SKU: AH4354A buckler is a small shield gripped in the fist, generally used as a companion weapon in hand-to-hand combat during the Medieval period. This version measures 11 inches in diameter, built in 14-gauge steel for genuine durability. A practical mid-sized buckler suited to sparring, HEMA practice, or re-enactment combat.
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Nasal Helmet, Cross Motif, Deluxe
SKU: H058This nasal helmet is finished with a cross motif, reflecting the deep religious symbolism woven into Medieval knightly identity and equipment. The nasal helmet, defined by its single protective nose-guard, saw widespread use from the late 9th century through the 12th, a form predating the later great helm and bascinet. A cross carried genuine devotional meaning for a Medieval Christian warrior, a visible mark of faith carried into battle.
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Economy Gothic Full Plate Armour
SKU: AH6007EGothic plate armour is the German style of full body harness that emerged in the 15th century, its fluted ridges and curved surfaces drawing directly on the pointed forms of Gothic architecture and art of the period. Produced in armouring centres such as Augsburg, Nuremberg and Landshut, it reached its peak in the 1480s, when it was considered among the finest and most technically advanced armour in Europe. This economy version offers the same complete harness system in a more accessible build, suited to those assembling a first full kit or working to a tighter budget.
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French Medieval Full Harness
SKU: AH6001French knights and men-at-arms fought in plate harness through the same broad period as their German and Italian counterparts, from the Hundred Years’ War through to the close of the medieval period. This full harness recreates that general late-medieval French style of armour, built as a complete head-to-toe system rather than a single isolated piece. French armour of this era shared much of its construction technique with neighbouring traditions while developing its own regional detailing and proportions.
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This wearable suit of armour takes its inspiration from the knightly harness of the 15th and 16th centuries, the period Sir Thomas Malory is thought to have drawn on when writing Le Morte d’Arthur, his account of Lancelot and the Round Table. Fully articulated and constructed from steel with adjustable leather straps, it is designed to actually be worn rather than serve purely as static display. Ideally suited to a wearer of average build, roughly 5’10” to 6’2″ tall, it comes complete with its own steel stand and wooden base for display between wearings.
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Celtic Cuff, Wild Boar Design II
SKU: AH5527The Celtic cuff descends from the torc, the open-ended metal ring worn at the neck, wrist or arm across Celtic Europe as a mark of status, rank and sometimes protective or spiritual significance. This cuff carries a second wild boar design, an animal that held particular significance in Celtic culture as a symbol of courage, ferocity and status, frequently depicted on weapons, standards and jewellery. Adjustable and cast in brass, it offers an alternative rendering of the boar motif to our other Celtic boar cuff, for collectors wanting a distinct pattern.
