Roman Helmet See's The Light After 2000 Years

[Melvadius]

ArchNews is carrying an intersting report about some of the iniital discoveies resulting from conservation work by the British Museum on this cavalry parade helmet found at Hallaton in close association with a hoard fo Iron Age period coins apparently back in 2000 (although the first article quotes 2002 as the find date). One intriguing aspect of the work is that more than one cheekpiece has been found in association with the helmet leading to some interesting speculation about why.

 

A silver and gold Roman cavalry helmet unearthed together with a hoard of 5,000 silver and gold coins in a field in Hallaton in 2002 is beginning to reveal secrets that have lain hidden for more than 2,000 years.

 

 

Painstaking work on the ornate but fragile parade helmet, which was lifted from its field in a protective plaster of Paris block, has been taking place at the British Museum.

 

For the past two years conservators Marilyn Hockey and Fleur Shearman have been excavating the remains and piecing them together. Another year of work will see the helmet stabilised and prepared for display in 2012 at Harborough Museum alongside the other finds.

 

So far conservation work has revealed that the helmet block contains the parts of at least one helmet comprising an iron core, covered with a very fine silver sheet with intricate designs hammered onto it using a technique called repouss

[Ludovicus]

What an interesting piece of news about this British find. The report link is well worth the effort to download the detailed photos and descriptions of the helmet(s).

Thanks, Melvadius.

 

ArchNews is carrying an intersting report about some of the iniital discoveies resulting from conservation work by the British Museum on this cavalry parade helmet found at Hallaton in close association with a hoard fo Iron Age period coins apparently back in 2000 (although the first article quotes 2002 as the find date). One intriguing aspect of the work is that more than one cheekpiece has been found in association with the helmet leading to some interesting speculation about why.

 

A silver and gold Roman cavalry helmet unearthed together with a hoard of 5,000 silver and gold coins in a field in Hallaton in 2002 is beginning to reveal secrets that have lain hidden for more than 2,000 years.

 

 

Painstaking work on the ornate but fragile parade helmet, which was lifted from its field in a protective plaster of Paris block, has been taking place at the British Museum.

 

For the past two years conservators Marilyn Hockey and Fleur Shearman have been excavating the remains and piecing them together. Another year of work will see the helmet stabilised and prepared for display in 2012 at Harborough Museum alongside the other finds.

 

So far conservation work has revealed that the helmet block contains the parts of at least one helmet comprising an iron core, covered with a very fine silver sheet with intricate designs hammered onto it using a technique called repouss

[Metella]

I wish they would have shown a picture. If you follow this later - please post a link if they every finish the model helmet as their display piece.