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Title: Sutton Hoo ship-burial helmet Post by: Napoleon on October 23, 2012, 05:08:14 PM The helmet has panels decorated with interlacing Style II animal ornament and heroic scenes, motifs that were common in the Germanic world at this time. One scene shows two warriors, wearing horned helmets, holding short swords and down-turned spears. The other shows a mounted warrior trampling a fallen enemy, who in turn is stabbing the horse, a theme handed down from the Roman Empire.
The face-mask is the most remarkable feature of the helmet: it has eye-sockets, eyebrows and a nose, which has two small holes cut in it to allow the wearer to breathe freely. The bronze eyebrows are inlaid with silver wire and garnets. Each ends in a gilt-bronze boars-head - perhaps a symbol of strength and courage. Placed against the top of the nose, between the eyebrows, is a gilded dragon-head that lies nose to nose with a similar dragon-head placed at the end of the low crest that runs over the cap. The nose, eyebrows and dragon make up a great bird with outstretched wings that flies on the helmet. The helmet was badly damaged when the burial chamber collapsed. By precisely locating the remaining fragments as if in a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, the helmet has been rebuilt. A complete reconstruction has also been made. #Invalid YouTube Link#http://youtu.be/T5yXQrTzUeg (http://youtu.be/T5yXQrTzUeg) Title: Re: Sutton Hoo ship-burial helmet Post by: galoshers on October 23, 2012, 06:45:02 PM i have examined this on numerous occasions ,its a fabrication of bits of rusted metal on a brown canvas model.it was rebuilt from the bits of scrap several times.
theres also a full copy made up from new parts . it was created by somebody who thought it was like this . imo its a big joke .. ??? Title: Re: Sutton Hoo ship-burial helmet Post by: peanut on January 19, 2013, 11:31:53 AM spent a lot of time in that Museum back in 2002/3 when it first opened.
I installed my digital sound equipment for all the interacives ;D If I hear the voice of Mr Basil Brown one more time I swear I'll top mysef . ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: Sutton Hoo ship-burial helmet Post by: galoshers on January 20, 2013, 09:15:47 AM the dept is closed now for some time so dont go there .
only the money room and roman room is open. on the helmet what appears to be bronze is in fact canvas painted a bronze colour with the bits of rusted metal stuck on ! its copied from other helmets found in europe so the shape is a model. |