Siege Helmet
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Siege engineers, sappers, and bombardiers regularly came under fire at close range and thus were equipped with extraordinarily heavy shot-proof armor. The bowl and cheeks of this example are protected by a double thickness of plates. The right side of the bowl has a proofmark––the dent caused by a bullet fired at a prescribed distance as proof of the armor plate's strength––but the shot did not penetrate the sturdy reinforce to the bowl below.
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