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| Replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet |
From the wiki. Unique in many respects, the Sutton Hoo helmet is nevertheless inextricably linked to its Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian contexts. It is one of only six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, along with those found at Benty Grange (1848), Coppergate (1982), Wollaston (1997), Shorwell (2004) and Staffordshire (2009), yet is closer in character to finds in Sweden at Vendel (1881–1883) and Valsgärde (1920s). At the same time, the helmet shares "consistent and intimate" parallels with those characterised in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, and, like the Sutton Hoo ship-burial as a whole, has had a profound impact on modern understandings of the poem.
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| A reconstruction of a helmet found in the Staffordshire hoard, at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA |
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| Coppergate |
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| Benty Grange helmet repro |
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| Replica of the Shorwell helmet |
Quite an in-depth article on the 'five' Anglo- Saxon helmets by the Thegns of Marcia here
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