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Often a light basinet was worn underneath it—or rather the knight usually wore his basinet and only put the heaume on over it at the last moment before engaging.

This was used alternately to, and even in conjunction with, the large heavy heaume.

Those six knights sorrowfully bear, In all their heaumes some yellow hair.

Towards the end of the 13th century, however, the basinet grew in size and strength, just as the casque had grown, and began to challenge comparison with the heavy and clumsy heaume.

Types of the later, purely tilting, heaume are shown in figs.