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The Sutton Hoo Helmet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Herbert Maryon
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When unpacked at the British Museum Laboratory, the remains of the Sutton WHoo helmet covered a good-sized table. They appeared to consist of a gilded bronze nose and mouth piece, two gilded bronze dragon heads, parts of what once had been a silver crest, and three or four hundred fragments of sand-encrusted rusty iron.

No photographs had been taken of them during excavation as their importance had not been realized at the time.

Type
Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 21 , Issue 83 , September 1947 , pp. 137 - 144
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1947

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* The views expressed in this article are those of the writer, and must not be regarded as representing the official views of the British Museum.

* Good examples of the same technique are found on the thin metal ornamental facings around the base of the shield (cf. ANTIQUITYM, arch 1946).