1947/09/01 by Herbert Maryon · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Ancient history #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Art #Bronze #Excavation #Historical Studies of British Isles #History #Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts #Table (database) #Visual arts
paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00016598
published in Antiquity 21(83), 137-144 (Cambridge University Press)
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When unpacked at the British Museum Laboratory, the remains of the Sutton WHoo helmet covered a good-sized table. They appeared to consist of a gilded bronze nose and mouth piece, two gilded bronze dragon heads, parts of what once had been a silver crest, and three or four hundred fragments of sand-encrusted rusty iron. No photographs had been taken of them during excavation as their importance had not been realized at the time.