North British Warrior

[Agraes]

About ridge helmets, some specific forms probably appeared in Britain. VIIth century Pioneer helmet and VIIIth century Coppergate helmet, both found in Anglo-saxon context are ridge helmets. Berkasovo, Concesti and others are however a bit early for a late Vth/VIth century context.

Actually I think the helmet depicted on the Aberlemno Pictish stone is likely to be the same type than the Coppergate. For me the battle represented isn't Dunnichen, but a battle between Picts and Strathclyders in the early VIIIth century, and therefore the horsemen bearing those helmets are North Britons.

Spangenhelms like the Baldenheim helmet are typical of the VIth century, yet there is no evidence they were used in the North. At Letavia we represent them, but we are continental Britons, and both southern Britain and early Brittany were more open to frankish influence and therefore this type of helmet may have been more common.