A CLOSE-HELMET, possibly from a funerary achievement, comprising one-piece skull with roped comb (holed), the pointed visor with single roped vision slit and fitting into the upper-bevor, the latter with roped upper-edge and pivoted at the same points as the lower-bevor, single neck-plate at the rear (lifting-peg, pivot hook catches, plume-holder and remaining neck-plates missing, pitted overall), the main edges throughout engraved with a single line, circa 1560