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Interesting article!
Curious people, that Batavi!
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Quote:Curious people, that Batavi!
Nutcases. Scary. Stay away.
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I would still date the original manufacture of the Florence helmet to the mid second century AD, based on the form of its crossed re-enforcements, which are of the same type which have been found in late Antonine contexts at Corbridge and the Saalburg. I agree that they seem to be more closely related to the re-enforcements found on 'cavalry' type 'D' and 'E' helmets. I would also contend, as I have said before, that Robinson's reconstruction of this helmet was wrong, as was Peter Connolley's reconstruction drawing of it. Given the form of the re-enforcements I think it much more likely that this helmet originately had a much deeper occipital region with several steps and a wide neck guard. I think that the cheek guards may have been much larger and may have resembled the cheek guard from South Shields.
http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/old%5F ... 5Ffotms96/
http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/old_fo ... /cheek.jpg
None of this, of course argues against it having been vandalised/modified by a Batavian in the mid to late second century AD.
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Everyone's forgetting the dating of another Italic D - the Krefeld Italic D - which is has been placed to the latter half of the 1st C (although that is debated). It's almost identical to the Mainz one. I don't understand why the latter is being dated in isolation though, as if it's the only one of its type?
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