Ridge Helmets

[markusaurelius]

After reading a large part of the Koblenz finds in the new Miks book it appears that all their Iron fragments there appeared to be between 1-1.5mm thick. So not quite as thick as 2-3mm as discussed. That being said, I believe many of the one piece helmets were thinner than that (1-1.5mm) due to the hammering/shaping process whereby the top of the helmet (arguably the most important part) was the thinnest!

As mentioned the uniformity of the thickness of these multi-piece helmets would have been much more consistent and therefore stronger IMO.