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that the lower bevor and chin-piece are in two parts, after the manner of the later armets. The opening in the dexter side of the bevor has been riveted up, an alteration made doubtless when the helm was used for funerary purposes, and when the wooden crest of the family, a porcupine, was added. It may be looked upon as an English armet-helm of the early years of the XVIth century (Fig. 490, a, b).

Fig. 491. Helm

Said to be that of the third Duke of Norfolk

Framlingham Church, Suffolk

A helm of a similar class to that of the last three described, said to have been worn at Flodden Field in 1513, used to hang over the tomb of the third Duke of Norfolk in Framlingham Church, Suffolk. To the present writer it appears that the skull-piece is of somewhat earlier date, and might even have been altered from one of the great bascinets of the third quarter of the XVth century; for the top of its delicately moulded crest terminates in a slightly pointed apex. Otherwise it is much the same as the Gostwick helm; though its visor and bevor appear to have been cut about when it was used for funerary purposes. Indeed, so difficult is it to imagine its original form as it now appears with the strange existing visor, even with other visors from helms of the same type before us, that we came to the conclusion after careful examination that the visor was made up out of parts of two head-pieces, which have been somewhat clumsily riveted together (Fig. 491). For many years this helm, surmounted by its wooden crest, was hung over the Norfolk tomb on the south wall of Framlingham Church, as is recorded by the guide books; but no opportunity for examining it closely had arisen until 1908, when, owing to the dilapidated condition of that part of the church, it was removed by the