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Fig. 92. Helmet found in 1835 near Saintfield, county Down, Ireland
Probably of the latter part of the XIIth century. Now in the Belfast Museum
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Fig. 94. Sleeping soldiers in the picture of the resurrection
Showing the medium-sized shields. (Nero MSS., C. IV, f. 23). British Museum
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Fig. 93. Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou
From an enamelled tablet of the third quarter of the XIIth century, now in the museum of Mans
see the shield splendidly emblazoned with arms correctly coloured, thus affording us evidence that it was between the years 1080, the date to which we assign the Bayeux needlework, and about 1170, the period of the production of the Anjou enamel, that a true heraldic significance was attached to decoration of the shield. In the centre of the Anjou shield is the umbo of