Cavalry helmet - need help identifying find site

[Peroni]

Dear all,

Could someone please help me identify the find site of this helmet?

I believe it's displayed in the Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen(?)

Was this found at Nijmegen or Xanten?
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/ ... rymask.jpg

[Praefectusclassis]

Yes, it is in that museum. IIRC it's from the Kops Plateau, Nijmegen.

[Peroni]

Thanks for the swift reply Jasper!

I presume that the rusty looking 'skin' is applied fur, similar to another masked helmet from Nijmegen. Or is it a ferrous skin that has indeed rusted?

[Praefectusclassis]

Grmbl.. The system we use for the imageb & helmet database has the annoying tendency to unpublish records automatically if you don't disable that for every item by hand.
So here it is, with more photos:
http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/component/ ... Itemid,96/

[Jona Lendering]

it's from the Kops Plateau, Nijmegen.

Pictures of the restoration can be found in H. van Enckevort & K. Zee, Het Kops Plateau (1996). It can perhaps be dated to the reign of Claudius and Nero, when the Kops Plateau was used as a cavalery fort; it is possible that an Ala Batavorum was stationed over there.

[Peroni]

Thanks guys!

So, do we know if the skin was fur/hair as on this helmet?..
http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/component/ ... Itemid,96/

Reconstructed here..
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/ ... foort1.jpg

For the base of Ala Batavorum, it must have been before 62-63CE, as their station for this time was Xanten(?) . After the Batavian revolt, they were moved to Noricum or Raetia, then in Pannonia after 85CE until 109CE. The unit was made milliaria after 98CE.

It then served in the Dacian Wars, (AE 1987 00829) and were garrisoned in Romania (IDR 03-04-79b to IDR 03-04-82). Moved to Dacia Superior early in the reign of Hadrian. They were possibly transferred temporarily to Pannonia superior for the Marcomannic Wars. Their third century garrison is unknown, but possibly Syria Palaestina.

[Jona Lendering]

do we know if the skin was fur/hair as on this helmet?.

If I understand it correctly, the evidence for the fur cover is the presence of some hairs and a hairnet. But I may be wrong.

As far as I know, eight Alae Batavorum were in Britain, with XIV Gemina. A ninth unit is supposed to have been at Xanten and took part in the repression of the revolt of Vindex (according to Tacitus). During the Batavian Revolt, the unit at the Kopse Hof did not incur the wrath of the Batavians (the site was not sacked); it has been assumed that the Ninth Ala was in both Xanten and Kopse Hof (which are no far from each other), and sided with the rebels.

[Peroni]

As far as I know, eight Alae Batavorum were in Britain, with XIV Gemina

Jona, what sources do you have for this? I always thought that the 8 Batavian units in Britain were infantry.