Archer and crossbow man, 1250. English longbowman in skullcap helmet cerebrerium, hauberk, leather breastplate and arrows in a girdle. The crossbowman or arbalister wears a nasal helmet and hauberk and carries a short sword baselard. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.
Archer and crossbow man, 1250. English longbowman in skullcap helmet cerebrerium, hauberk, leather breastplate and arrows in a girdle. The crossbowman or arbalister wears a nasal helmet and hauberk and carries a short sword baselard. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.