The Yarm Helmet
Chris Caple
THE YARM HELMET, unearthed in the 1950s by workmen at Yarm (North Yorkshire, England), is a composite construction ‘crested’ helmet of riveted, undecorated, thin iron plates. Without close parallel time it was found, could not be confidently attributed to specific date or culture. This paper records, analyses and reassesses helmet, demonstrating that later copy, but an original 9th–11th-century comparable with Gjermundbu (Norway). Its materials speak growing pragmatism arms armour production, which necessary supply increasing numbers armed warriors present this period.
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