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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
When unpacked at the British Museum Laboratory, the remains of the Sutton WHoo helmet covered a good-sized table. They appeared to consist of a gilded bronze nose and mouth piece, two gilded bronze dragon heads, parts of what once had been a silver crest, and three or four hundred fragments of sand-encrusted rusty iron.
No photographs had been taken of them during excavation as their importance had not been realized at the time.
* The views expressed in this article are those of the writer, and must not be regarded as representing the official views of the British Museum.
* Good examples of the same technique are found on the thin metal ornamental facings around the base of the shield (cf. ANTIQUITYM, arch 1946).