11-22-2007, 06:25 PM
Not anything, necessarily. It's often pointed out that especially the helmet would look like a Late Roman helmet like the Burgh Castle type, but actually it shows more likeness to the Intercisa types:
No base ring, cheek plates with straps instead of hinges, no nasal (the face mask is attached to the rim with straps/hinges, no riveted on it).
But there are more differences - the face mask, the enormous neck guard, the decorations. In fact, if I would have to look for origins, I would look more towards the East, where face masks occur amongst steppe cultures, and a link to Persian helmets than to Roman ones.
No base ring, cheek plates with straps instead of hinges, no nasal (the face mask is attached to the rim with straps/hinges, no riveted on it).
But there are more differences - the face mask, the enormous neck guard, the decorations. In fact, if I would have to look for origins, I would look more towards the East, where face masks occur amongst steppe cultures, and a link to Persian helmets than to Roman ones.
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)