Helmet Commissioning

[john m roberts]

A Coppergate-style helm with a Benty Grange-style boar crest, with real boar bristles. Very cool. As long as they don't say that this is a copy of a real find, this is fine with me. After all, if reenactors only wear gear that is closely modeled on actual finds then everyone wears the same dozen or so helmets, most of them made for kings. Not realistic by any means. Right now, Dave Akers is making a helmet to my design that I call "generic Germanic Migration," having elements of several pressblech-style helmets plus a few late-Roman features. It's what I picture a typical prosperous, but not aristocratic, warrior to be wearing in 5th-6th century northern Europe.