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The cavalry helmet was not alone. Among the artifacts, archeologists recovered a trove of over 5,000 Iron Age and Roman coins, silver bowls, and hundreds of animal bones linked to ceremonial ...
has gone on view at the Harborough Museum in Leicester. The helmet consists of a bowl, seven cheekpieces, and numerous other fragments. The cheekpieces depict an image of a Roman emperor on ...
The treasure also includes over 5,000 gold and silver coins, a silver bowl, silver ingots and animal bones, all buried during the Roman Empire’s conquest of Britain. With the helmet on view ...
But, the object turned out to be something extraordinary indeed: the fractured remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman cavalry helmet decorated with ornate patterns of silver and gold. Known as the ...
Fragments of a rare Roman-era helmet and a trove of weapons were found by archaeologists at Løsning Søndermark, Denmark. In the postholes of two houses, researchers first discovered two iron ...
“The old view is 'Romans bad ... that Britons fought on the other side at the time of the Roman Conquest,” he added. An alternative theory that the helmet was seized as booty can be discounted ...
Archaeologists in Denmark found a “rare” Roman helmet buried by an ancient chief along with hundreds of weapons and other artifacts. Photo from the Vejle Museums Archaeologists in Denmark ...
Archaeologists have discovered fragments of an “exceptionally rare” Roman-era helmet in Denmark along with a hoard of weapons likely buried as a ritual offering. The 1,600-year-old weapon ...
A rare Roman cavalry helmet found by a man using a metal detector in a northern English field sold for nearly 2.3 million pounds ($3.6 million) at a London auction Thursday. The unusual bronze ...
An ancient Roman cavalry helmet discovered in 2001 will go on display in the U.K., museum officials said. This is the replica. Photo from the Harborough Museum, Leicestershire, UK Two decades ago ...