[Illustration: FIG. 76.--ROMAN LEGIONARY HELMET FOUND NEAR BERKHAMPSTEAD. Ca. 1:4.] [Illustration: FIG. 77.--PARADE HELMET MASKS (NOS. 209, 208).] A peculiar fashion of Roman helmet is represented by two bronze vizor-masks in Case 117 (Nos. =208=, =209=, fig. 77). A complete helmet of the same kind, exhibited in the Room of Roman Britain, was found at Ribchester in 1796, and two other specimens, a fragmentary iron helmet and a bronze mask, have recently been excavated at Newstead on the Tweed. The Newstead helmet has remains of padding still adhering, which prove that these strange helmets were actually worn, though Arrian, writing on tactics in the second century A.D., says that they were used for display, and not in battle. The earlier of our examples (No. =208=, fig. 77, right), which probably belongs to the first century A.D., is said to have been found on the face of a skeleton in a grave at Nola in Italy in the eighteenth century. The other (No. =209=, fig. 77, left), which has the more usual type of features, has lately been presented to the Museum, having been purchased at Aintab in Syria during the occupation of the country by British troops. Both masks are pierced at eyes, nostrils and mouth, and show traces of attachment to the helmet above the forehead. No. =209= has remains of white metal plating on the face, the hair being left in the colour of bronze. [Illustration: FIG. 78.--HELMETS WITH WOODEN PEG FOR PLUME AND TUBE FOR FEATHER (NOS. 189, 199). 1:5.] [Illustration: FIG. 79.--ITALIAN HELMET DECORATED WITH HORNS, WINGS AND PLUME.] [Illustration: FIG. 80.--ITALIAN VASE-PAINTING, SHOWING FEATHERED HELMET AND THE METAL CUIRASS.]