10-11th Century Irish Warriors

[Robert Vermaat]

I don't think this helmet is the only one that would fit the bill. I mean, even as Late Roman helmets go there's the Budapest helmet, also a ridge helmet, also with such 'jewels'(which they aren't, in fact this is glass and other non-precious stuff), but which is less spectacular than the brilliant crest of the Berkasovo II.

McBride also used it in Tim Newark's book about Celtic Warriors (also Brian Boru), another one from Tim Newark (Concord's Ancient Celts) on an Arthurian warrior and in David Nicolle's (Osprey MAA Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars), in proper context this time. None of them a proper picture of the helmet, because he always used that silvery colour (where in fact it's gilded), plus he got the cheek plates wrong or oversized the crest. :-(

So in fact I don't think that McBride used this helmet because it fit the description, but because he liked the helmet so much!