Helms 450 - 550 AD

Mike Garrett (Orc) · Post by **Mike Garrett (Orc)** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:55 pm

Any one got any good pics of helms for this period? Preferably British/Northwest Europe. Other place considered. Haven't really found any decent ones :sad:

Also patterns for the same or a reasonable armourer (Hal, you got any thing like I might want?)

Jason Grimes · Post by **Jason Grimes** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:50 pm

Definitly not my time period, but I do have a couple of pictures of helms that if I remember correctly are dated to around 500 AD. I have seen many pictures of surviving examples of this type so they must have been fairly popular. Don't take my word for it though, I'm relying on my memory here.

http://www.grimmarmoury.com/gallery/vie ... id=05542_G

http://www.grimmarmoury.com/gallery/vie ... id=15745_a
http://www.grimmarmoury.com/gallery/vie ... id=15745_b

The last two are different views of the same helmet. Hope this helps,

Mike Garrett (Orc) · Post by **Mike Garrett (Orc)** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:36 pm

Cheers Jason

Halberds · Post by **Halberds** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:00 am

What about this?
http://www.housebarra.com/EP/ep04/06coppergate.html
Or this:
http://www.millennia.demon.co.uk/ravens/spangenhelm.htm
Or this?
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/h ... _ridge.jpg

Hal

Gerhard von Liebau · Post by **Gerhard von Liebau** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:30 am

Hey Hal,

The second two there look pretty good, but I'm under the impression that the Coppergate helmet dates to about 650 AD or so, approximately... Or somewhere within that period. Not quite back to 550, or even 600, if I'm not mistaken.

By the way, I love your Romano-Sassanid helmet!

-Gregory-

Egfroth · Post by **Egfroth** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:05 am

What you need is "Migration Period" helmets. Contact Halvgrim, who has an amazing collection of pics. I'd give it to you myself, but I'm away from home and my own computer (in Indonesia, having a great time!).

Or you could google "migration period helmet" or "Volkerwanderungzeit helm" (same thing), perhaps.

Mike Garrett (Orc) · Post by **Mike Garrett (Orc)** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:07 am

Cheers; just remembered I've got a book called Barbarians, can't remember author. It covers that period also.

Gerhard von Liebau · Post by **Gerhard von Liebau** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:32 am

And here's Halvgrimr's site, which I completely didn't think about the last time I posted!

http://www.missouri.edu/%7Erls555/SCA/r ... /helms.htm

-Gregory-