Not the best picture of this helmet. To start off with, it was taken when the helmet was incomplete - the brass rivets hadn't been put in yet, and the plume hadn't been added. Secondly, the focus and the light don't really do it justice. The frame plates are cusped - you can see some of this at the top of the browband, but not on the rest - and the contrast is either too high or too low to really get the detail of the helmet. In due course I'll replace this with a better photo.
It's a copy of a helmet found in Gniezdow (which is now in Southern Russia, I believe), from the second half of the 9th century. (Published in Zeitschrift fur historische Waffenkunde, Dresden 1936, p. 30). It should eb still prettier - there are trefoil decorations either punched or cut into the frame between the rivets, but I wasn't able to organise a means of making them in the short time I had to do the helmet. |
