. The arts in early England. marked that among the armedfigures in the representations on the Franks Casket in theBritish Museum (p. 205 note 1) some are shown with coats ofmail, PL lxxxi, 7 (p. 377). It must be remembered alsothat the heroic poems as we have them are later than the finds,and the Germanic warrior of the early migration period pre-ferred to have his limbs free, caring more for weapons ofoffence than for protective ones. The Benty Grange inter-ment is late (p. 772). Coats of mail were worn by the Romansoldiers who may have borrowed the equipment from theEast, but Dr. Grobbels th
. The arts in early England. marked that among the armedfigures in the representations on the Franks Casket in theBritish Museum (p. 205 note 1) some are shown with coats ofmail, PL lxxxi, 7 (p. 377). It must be remembered alsothat the heroic poems as we have them are later than the finds,and the Germanic warrior of the early migration period pre-ferred to have his limbs free, caring more for weapons ofoffence than for protective ones. The Benty Grange inter-ment is late (p. 772). Coats of mail were worn by the Romansoldiers who may have borrowed the equipment from theEast, but Dr. Grobbels thinks the Gammertingen mailGerman Much the same may be said about the helmet. It isextremely rare in Germanic finds, less than a dozen examples 1 Now in the Pierpont Morgan Collection, New York. Seymour de Ricci,Catalogue of a Collection of Merovingian Antiquities belonging to J. TierpontMorgan, Paris, 1910. Plates x and xi. 2 Bateman, Ten Tears Diggings, 1861, p. 32. 3 Grobbels, p. 35. facing p. 195 HELMET AND SHIELDS. 2, J, are Continental pieces THE HELMET 195 being known,1 and is generally of a conical shape perhapsadopted from oriental sources ; it is constructed in a system offramework and filling that we shall see illustrated in a remark-able shield boss found at Farthingdown, Surrey, PL xxm, one helmet found in England is of this character but isin some respects unique. It was found in the Benty Grangetumulus just referred to and is now in the Museum at Sheffield,PL xxi, 1. It is composed of a framework of iron bands,which is all that is seen in the photograph, and Mr. Batemansays from the impression on the metal it is evident that theoutside was covered with plates of horn disposed diagonallyso as to produce a herring-bone pattern,2 whence we cangather that it looked like a Roman Schuppenpanzer or lorica squamata that was coated with protective Ammianus Marcellinus 3 tells his readers that the Quadiwore breastplates made of horn scraped and polis
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