North British Warrior

[Hugh Fuller]

If there were no spangenhelms in Briton in the 6th - the 8th Centuries, then what sorts of helmets did they wear? This seems to me to be a similar situation to the question of the use of the Attic helmet by the Roman officer class. Please see my thread on this. Well, we have evidence that the spangenhelm was in use by the peoples just across the Channel and the North Sea as well as its use by the people invading Britain from across the North Sea, the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, and the Frisians, in their homelands, so why do you say that they never took it to Britain and that the British never acquired it? I would especially like to point out that we do have a form of spangenhelm native to Britain in the form of the Benty Grange helmet which was a spangenhelm in design but used horn instead of metal for the plates.