Faceguards on Celtic helmets?

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As far I know, most helmets found in Britain from late antiquity/early middle ages are "anglo-saxons" spangelhelms, sometimes with vendel influence such as the famous Sutton Hoo helmet. We can however reasonnably think that the same late roman helms were used in Britain and the rest of the Empire. There is also the Burgh Castle helmet:


Irishmen did trade with Britain some roman artifacts, and they adopted the shape of the Imperial Gallic helmets to their own ends. Here a drawing of an irish warrior of the VIth century we used for my Rome Total War mod:
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/7325 ... hta2zy.png

And here some stuff about gaelic warfare our gaelic "adviser" wrote that could interest you:
http://111935.aceboard.fr/111935-533-52 ... arfare.htm

As Gaels were very different from Latenian Celts.


Robert posted a part of it:

This is the aberlemno stone. Most popular theory is that it represents the battle of Dunnichen, where the Picts of Bridei III won a great victory against the Northumbrians, in 685 AD. There is however another theory, a bit more likely, this stone would comemore a battle between Picts and Strathclyders Britons - Britons were known as horsmen. Anyway, you can see the helm depicted.