Late Bronze Age Boar\'s Tusk Helmet

[Dan Howard]

So how many boar tusks are needed for a helmet.?

"between twenty and fifty boars would have been needed for a single helmet"

Source: D. Howard, Bronze Age Military Equipment, (Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military), 2011. p. 83

So, anywhere between forty and a hundred tusks. The disparity is mainly due to the number of rows of tusks in the helmet and whether tusks are also used to make the cheek guards or not. My boars tusk helmet is based on an extant example that had cheek guards made of bronze.