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Watercolour showing the helmet from Benty Grange
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Watercolour showing the helmet from Benty Grange
Site name : Benty Grange
Site type : Burial site
Time period : Anglo-Saxon
Material : Metal; Iron; Bronze; Gold; Silver; Gemstone
Object type : Grave goods; Household item
Museum number : J93.1189; 1995.195
Llewellynn Jewitt's watercolours of the objects in Thomas Bateman's collection are an important record. He painted the larger and more impressive material. This included the Benty Grange helmet shown here. However, he also drew smaller, more fragmentary remains.
The watercolour of the helmet shows how similar it is today. The most obvious difference is the boar. It still has the corrosion which was not removed until 1948. This was exactly one hundred years after it was first excavated.
Bibliography :
Bateman, T. , 1861
Glossary:
Llewellynn Jewitt
Rivet
Thomas Bateman
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Helmet from Benty Grange
Close up of boar on helmet from Benty Grange
Cross from replica Benty Grange helmet
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