High Crest

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It stands 180mm high, 75mm from the top fitting on left straight across to the fitting on right, 50mm from the bottom fitting left straight across to the front edge.

This is an interpretation of a piece currently in Italy, but that only has the main stem, the pieces stitched on with copper wire (there is a left and right side here) and the brass mounting brackets for the wooden crest are all conjecture. I simply made a copy of what had been found and then worked out how to mount a crestbox. There are 10 individual pieces here (although there should only be 9 - the centre stem is actually two strips as I did not have a thick enough piece for this and thus bonded two pieces together.

As you can see - the box is pinned in and can be removed.

The Crest itself is attached to a fitting on the helmet. It had wire pins in originally but I have replaced them with wood. I have a theory - a high crest it a liability if swiped at IF it does not detach. Thus either gluing or having a breakable release system seemed most likely.

See the original piece in Connolley's Greece and Rome at War.