with rounded one-piece crown rising to a high file-roped medial comb decorated top and bottom on each side with an incised line, down-turned brim projecting to an obtuse point front and rear, the edge of the brim formed with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a single incised line, the base of the crown encircled by eleven lining-rivets with foliate washers (small chips and losses, pierced with a later hole for display at each end and side), 20.0 cm high

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 12th February 1974, lot 166

Literature

Howard M. Curtis, ‘2500 Years of European Helmets 800 B.C. - 1700 A.D.’, North Hollywood, 1978, pp. 222-223

The helmet is a rare example of an early form of morion.