Late Roman Helmet Deurne-Berkasovo Variant II

[Robert Vermaat]

Robert are you sure you are not mixing up helmet types? I'm using the typology used by Miks which is used for essentially the majority of the bi-partial bowl helmets of the later Roman period. Variant I being the ones with a base ring, Variant II being the ones with the nasal and cheek/neck guards attached to the bowl. I know the actual Deurne helmet has hinges, but the majority of the helmets of the Deurne-Berkasovo variant II type clearly did not have hinges of metal.

No I'm not mixing my types up, but metal hinges are less common than I assumed (and why I should not write from memory without my books present). Miks' typology is not as simple as the old Intercisa/Berkasovo typology. Before the Koblenz hoard I guess we differed between the helmets with no base ring/no nasal/slender cheekplates/bipartite bowl (Intercisa) and the ones with a basering/nasal/wide cheekplates/bipartite or more (Berkasovo), with of course a few hybrids. I realise that this has been complicated since the Koblenz helmets turned up.

Still, when metal hinges occur, as far as I can tell, they occur on the helmets with the larger cheekplates (Berkasovo type).