By the late 15th century, the aventail had replaced the mail coif completely.

It was worn either alone or more often over or under a mail coif.

The mail coif is now displayed inside Tofta church.

The nasal helmet would usually have been worn over a mail coif, which protected the lower parts of the head, throat and neck.

A chain mail coif framed her long-boned, elegant face.

Kelson asked, as he also removed his helm and pushed back his mail coif.

They would don steel caps and mail coifs later on, but helmets would not be permitted.

He wore his barbarous, wheat shock hair hacked short to accommodate a mail coif.

Stomach lurching, he tugged the steel helmet from his head, then the mail coif, and tossed both to the ground.

I found myself dragging him off the battlefield, into the brush, and pulling the helmet and mail coif from his head.

Upon his head he placed a padded arming cap, a mail coif, and a plain steel helm.

Long purple veils covered their faces and draped over their shoulders, like mail coifs.

The head moved feebly, its mail coif still in place but the helm gone, and smears of blood across a white face masked it.

Mail-clad warriors typically wore separate rigid helms over their mail coifs for head protection.

In 2004, an extremely well-preserved mail coif was discovered in a room in the tower during cleaning of the church.

He wore a mail coif, but the rest of his armor was a knee-length shirt of leather covered with bone scales.

Mail was commonly used to protect the face, neck, and cheeks, either as an aventail from the helmet or as a mail coif.

Kusari zukin (mail coif)

Knights usually wore the great helm over a mail coif (hood) sometimes in conjunction with a close-fitting iron skull cap known as a cervelliere.

He wore only a shirt of black oiled ringmail over boiled leather, a round steel halfhelm with a noseguard, and a mail coif.

First to neck length, and then more slowly and awkwardly, to the cropped head one might naturally expect to see beneath a mail coif and helm.

Joram had never spent much time at Court, and he had covered his distinctive silver-gilt hair with a quilted arming cap and mail coif.

"Come and sit down, Cathan," Joram said quietly, sweeping off his mail coif and arming cap and tossing them onto the table.

An ebony braid hung down his back from beneath his mailed coif, and the helm itself was adorned with a ducal coronet set with jewels.

Reputedly it is one of the most well-preserved mail coif ever found in Europe, second only to a similar one displayed at the National Museum of Scotland.