09-21-2007, 06:22 PM
A late example:
The magnificent Spangenhelmets of Baldenheim type (5th/6th century) were all produced in fabricae, one group in the west, the other in the east. They probably were presents to higher officers. Some 32 were found, thought to represent some 1000 helmet wearers at a time.
Barbaricarii in the fabricae had to produce (that is: decorate normal ones with gold and such) each six helmets per month respectively.
Source:
Kurt Böhner: Die frühmittelalterlichen Spangenhelme und die nordischen Helme der Vendelzeit, in RGZM 41,2 (1994).
The magnificent Spangenhelmets of Baldenheim type (5th/6th century) were all produced in fabricae, one group in the west, the other in the east. They probably were presents to higher officers. Some 32 were found, thought to represent some 1000 helmet wearers at a time.
Barbaricarii in the fabricae had to produce (that is: decorate normal ones with gold and such) each six helmets per month respectively.
Source:
Kurt Böhner: Die frühmittelalterlichen Spangenhelme und die nordischen Helme der Vendelzeit, in RGZM 41,2 (1994).
Jens Wucherpfennig
