11-14-2017, 04:05 AM
I've been researching the Sutton Hoo helmet, which appears to derive from the fourth and fifth century helmets of the Constantinian workshops. Curiously, the bowl of the Sutton Hoo helmet appears to have been raised from a single sheet of iron, whereas the Roman examples are pretty much universally of bipartate or quadripartite construction (James 1986). Helmut Nickel, however, states that the one-piece bowl technique was not lost until around 500 AD—incidentally, the earliest suggested date for the Sutton Hoo helmet.
If the skill needed to make one-piece helmet bowls was around until 500 AD, are there examples of late Roman helmets made in such a way?
If the skill needed to make one-piece helmet bowls was around until 500 AD, are there examples of late Roman helmets made in such a way?
