Roman helmet designations

[MeinPanzer]

They're not that different Jim, I just poured over the helmet base looking at the Gallic's and they all share the exact same features. Any variations could easily be explained by my reasons above. Not to mention we don't know if someone with money had a smith do some custom work on a gallic type of helm to suit it to their desires. That type of custom work doesn't in my mind warrant a new helmet type.

Robinson's typology needs to be revised..it's antiquated and no longer efficient. Especially given the helmets being found now.

Barry, 50 years was in fact just an arbitrary number I used as an example, and shouldn't be taken as any more than that.

I'm going to make this into my side project after speaking to Jasper about it...once I start to get somewhere on it, I'll post what I have for comments.

The next step, of course, would be to provide a similar, comprehensive system to identify both Hellenistic and Roman varieties of helmets and to "bridge the gap" between the two bodies, and eventually to go even further and bridge the gap between Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman helmets. Dintsis' system for identifying Hellenistic helmets is in about as much need for change as Robinson's. This is something which, to my knowledge, has not really been attempted in the past. Imagine being able to clearly identify all sorts of helmets and their evolutions within a 7-8 century timespan!