Armouries
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Folding Greaves, Hoplite Pattern
SKU: AH6122The greave takes its name, through Old French grève, from a word for the shin, and was one of the earliest and most enduring pieces of dedicated leg armour in the ancient world. Greek hoplites wore bronze greaves shaped to the contour of the calf and shin, relying on the natural spring of the metal to grip the leg without straps or buckles. This steel interpretation follows that same hoplite silhouette in a folding, adjustable design, standing 22 inches including the knee cap.
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Trojan War-Era Helmet
SKU: AH6120/H024PThis helmet draws on the Trojan War tradition, the legendary conflict waged against the city of Troy after Paris's abduction of Helen, immortalised in Homer's Iliad. Whatever its precise historical basis, the Trojan War became the foundational epic of Greek culture, its heroes and battles referenced throughout later Greek art, literature, and identity for centuries. This piece reflects the Bronze Age martial imagery associated with that legendary conflict, distinct from the later Classical-period hoplite equipment of Corinthian and Boeotian helmets.
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Three-Disc Cardiophylax Armour with Brass Belt
SKU: AH6088BThis three-disc armour, or cardiophylax, dates back to 450-30 BC, originally worn by Etruscan and Samnite warriors of Central Italy before later being adopted by the Samnite class of Roman gladiators.
The three overlapping discs offered targeted protection to the chest without the weight of a full cuirass, and the accompanying ornamented brass belt was itself considered a mark of a warrior’s status in Central Italy during this period.
This reproduction recreates that historic three-disc armour with its brass belt, suited to an Etruscan, Samnite, or gladiatorial impression.
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Spartan Helmet
SKU: AH6078/H042This helmet reflects the equipment of the Spartan army, whose citizens — trained from childhood in the famously demanding agoge system — formed the core of one of the ancient world's most feared military forces. Spartan hoplites typically carried a version of the Corinthian helmet, its enclosed bronze form offering strong protection within the tightly packed ranks of the phalanx formation Sparta's army was built around. This unplumed pattern reflects the essential Spartan helmet form without additional crest decoration.
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Spartan Helmet, with Plume
SKU: AH6078P/H042PThis helmet reflects the equipment of the Spartan army, whose citizens — trained from childhood in the famously demanding agoge system — formed the core of one of the ancient world's most feared military forces. Spartan hoplites typically carried a version of the Corinthian helmet, its enclosed bronze form offering strong protection within the tightly packed ranks of the phalanx formation Sparta's army was built around. A horsehair plume, often dyed a distinctive red associated with Spartan military dress, added both visual presence and a further mark of status to the wearer.
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This blackened steel muscle cuirass takes the classical lorica musculata form into a darker, more imposing register, its sculpted torso finished in black with contrasting solid brass accents at the shoulders and sides. Muscle cuirasses of this kind were the preserve of Roman commanders and, in art and statuary, of emperors and deities such as Mars — a style meant to project heroic and even divine authority rather than blend into the ranks. Paired with a fitted leather belt, the cuirass follows the practice of wearing the musculata over a padded subarmalis, with leather strapping distributing its weight for a genuinely wearable fit.
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Leather Musculata, Muscle Cuirass
SKU: AH6071LThis leather musculata recreates the classical muscle cuirass form in moulded leather rather than metal, secured with leather straps for a comfortable, lightweight fit. Muscle cuirasses were historically worn by Greek and Roman officers and commanders as a mark of rank, their sculpted, anatomically idealised surface projecting heroic authority. A leather build offers a genuinely lighter alternative to brass or steel versions, suited to extended wear or theatrical use.
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Muscle Armour (Iron)
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Muscle Armour, Brass (Lorica Musculata)
SKU: AH6071BThis full-length brass muscle cuirass follows the classical lorica musculata form, its surface sculpted to mimic an idealised male torso in the tradition established by Greek armourers and inherited by Rome. Worn over a padded subarmalis and secured with leather straps, this style of armour marked out officers, tribunes and commanders rather than the ordinary legionary, who typically wore mail or segmented plate. Its combination of anatomical sculpting and reflective brass surface made it as much a visual statement of rank and heroic bearing as a piece of protective equipment.
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Italo-Corinthian Helmet, Brass, with Plume
SKU: AH6058BPThe Italo-Corinthian helmet developed a distinctive silhouette after Italian warriors took to wearing the classical Corinthian helmet pushed up on the forehead, even in the thick of battle, for a clearer view and better hearing. This eventually transformed the once face-covering visor into a purely decorative feature, while the helmet itself came to be worn more like a cap than a fully enclosing helm. A horsehair plume, as fitted here, added both visual presence and a further mark of status to the wearer.
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The muscle cuirass, or lorica musculata, sculpted a warrior’s torso into the idealised heroic physique first developed by Greek armourers and adopted across the Roman world as a mark of rank. This shorter form, ending above the waist, carries a central Gorgon’s head medallion — a protective motif frequently seen on the armour of officers and commanders in Greco-Roman art. Rather than standard-issue kit for the legionary ranks, this style of cuirass was worn by senior officers, generals, and, in artistic depiction, emperors and deities, projecting heroic and divine authority.
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Celtic Helmet (Forêt de Rouvray Pattern)
SKU: AH6099This helmet references a find from the Forêt de Rouvray in France, part of the broader Montefortino-related family of Celtic helmets that spread across Iron Age Gaul. Montefortino-form helmets, with their conical or rounded profile and raised central knob, were carried by Celtic tribes throughout Western Europe long before Rome adopted the same basic design. The find reflects the widespread reach of this helmet tradition across Gaul, contributing to the archaeological record documenting Celtic military equipment before and during Rome's conquest of the region.
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Celtic Helmet, Montefortino Pattern
SKU: AH6100The Montefortino helmet form originated among Celtic peoples in the 4th century BC, before Rome adopted it so thoroughly that it came to define the Republican legionary's silhouette for centuries. Its conical or rounded profile, topped with a raised central knob and finished with a modest neck guard and cheek plates, remained recognisable across the type's long, continually modified service life. This piece reflects the Celtic form in its own right, distinct from the later Roman-adopted versions carried by the legions.
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Celtic “Port bei Nidau” Helmet
SKU: AH6314NThis helmet is based on the Port bei Nidau find, an iron helmet recovered in remarkably intact condition from the River Thielle near Nidau, Switzerland, in the late 19th century. Dated to the 1st century BC and classified as a Late La Tène period piece, it originated among Gallic tribes of Eastern Gaul, its embossed eyebrow decoration and riveted neck guard becoming hallmarks of the type. This exact form was so effective that the Romans adopted it during Caesar's Gallic Wars, and it directly evolved into the Imperial Gallic Weisenau helmet — the classic Roman legionary helmet of the following centuries.
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Celtic Montefortino Helmet
SKU: AH6318NThe Montefortino helmet form originated among Celtic peoples of northern Italy in the 4th century BC, before the Romans adopted it so thoroughly that it came to define the Republican legionary's silhouette for centuries. Its distinctive conical or rounded profile, topped with a raised central knob, was carried into Italy by the Senones, one of the Celtic tribes that settled the region. This piece reflects the helmet's genuine Celtic origins, before its long afterlife as Rome's own standard-issue helmet.
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This sallet reflects the equipment of an archer during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487), the prolonged English civil conflict fought between the rival houses of Lancaster and York. English longbowmen played a decisive role throughout the conflict, and a sallet’s open, visor-optional design suited their need for clear sightlines when drawing a bow. The sallet had by this period become the dominant Medieval war helmet across much of Europe, offering good protection with genuinely improved mobility over the earlier bascinet.
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This closed burgonet combines the light, open-faced burgonet's high combed skull with the fuller facial protection of a close helmet — worth correcting directly here, since older listing copy filed this piece under 'Medieval,' when it is a genuine 17th century Renaissance-era form. The burgonet emerged in the early 16th century as the Medieval armet evolved into new Renaissance styles, and this closed variant represents a later hybrid development combining both traditions. Weighing as much as 20 pounds in genuine period examples, the closed burgonet was primarily worn by European cavalry seeking maximum protection.
