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It´s been a year to the day that we last discussed the Fernpass helmet, found near Biberwier in Tirol, Austria.
Sadly, nothing new has come forward, but I managed to find new images in old newspaper articles. Each opiucture can shed a bit more light on this strange helmet.
Image 1
This ianage shows the very broad nasal, but also the strange neck guard. newspaper articles claim that the neck protection was made from mail, which makes this reconstruction (the helmet was found in 2004) even more strange.
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Image 2
Another view of thwe neck guard, which is so straight that a) it might be misunderstood or b) it reminds me of the Deir el medineh helmet. Report claim that the cheek guards were also attached by hinges.
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Image 3
So far the only picture of the cheek guards! The seem made from riveted plates.. The curves remind me of a 3rd c. helmet!  hock:
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Many thanks, Robert! 
And I thought that the Iatrus helmet was the strangest late Helmet I had ever seen... hock:
BTW, The other Deir-El Medineh like iron helmet, unprovenanced and for sale, was finally a fake?
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Hey, isn`t the nose quard too big!! Just kidding, the variation (due to the rude barbarian copying?) must have been once again bigger than we have thought :wink: ...
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Wow, this thread is interesting! Thanks for reviving it.
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Quote:BTW, The other Deir-El Medineh like iron helmet, unprovenanced and for sale, was finally a fake?
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have i missed one .... which helmet was this please ?
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That one is amazing!!! Is there any more info about it yet?
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Nope, nothing.
The helmet is supposedly kept at the Institut für Archäologie der Universität Innsbruck. maybe one of our german member could send a friendly email in German?
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Conal,
I was meaning this one:
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This has been exposed as a fake ????? .... Nooooooooo 
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Was this Christies helmet really a fake, information please!
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No, no, no, I'm not meaning that. hock:
After I returned to RAT after my long 'summer holidays' I just read somewhere here that certain late helmet was a fake :? I just want to know which one it was...
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Ok, thanks Aitor! To tell you the truth it would be a disappointment if this Christies helmet turns out to be a hoax :wink: !
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Quote:No, no, no, I'm not meaning that. hock:
After I returned to RAT after my long 'summer holidays' I just read somewhere here that certain late helmet was a fake :? I just want to know which one it was...
THIS one:
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