Cover illustration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey" class="extiw" title="en:Ordnance Survey">Ordnance Survey</a>'s 1966 second edition of <i>Map of Britain in the Dark Ages</i>, showing an artistic reconstruction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo_helmet" class="extiw" title="en:Sutton Hoo helmet">Sutton Hoo helmet</a>.
<p>From the book:
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"COVER DESIGN: The main feature of the cover design is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendel_Period" class="extiw" title="en:Vendel Period">Vendel</a>-style helmet found in the royal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ship_burial" class="extiw" title="en:ship burial">ship-burial</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo" class="extiw" title="en:Sutton Hoo">Sutton Hoo</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk" class="extiw" title="en:Suffolk">Suffolk</a>, in 1939, and now in the British Museum. This reconstruction has been carried out by the Archaeology Division of the Ordnance Survey in consultation with the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, British Museum. Modifications in shape and detail occur in this, the first attempted reconstruction in colour, as compared with the helmet as hitherto published or as at present seen in the British Museum. These modifications include the size of the crown, the angle at which the visor is set, and the size of the eye openings; rearrangement of the figure and interlace panels on the crown; and the transposition of the dragon heads, of different design, which terminate the crest. While every effort has been made to achieve accuracy, this drawing is not to be regarded as definitive; and in particular it is possible that the panels of interlace on the visor were originally tinned, and not gilded as shown in this reconstruction."
Arthur Thomas Chester of the Archaeology Division of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey" class="extiw" title="en:Ordnance Survey">Ordnance Survey</a> in consultation with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum" class="extiw" title="en:British Museum">British Museum</a>'s Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, Reference: <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">(1991) <i> Map Cover Art: A pictorial history of Ordnance Survey cover illustrations</i>, Ordnance Survey, p. 54  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" class="extiw" title="en:International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a>:  <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0319--00234-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0319--00234-6">978-0319--00234-6</a>. </small></cite>
1966-01-01
Cover of <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/DarkAgesBritain1966OrdnanceSurveyImages">Map of Britain in the Dark Ages</a></i>, 2nd ed. (1966)