York Archaeological Trust completed its first decade of rescue archaeology in York with the most spectacular find made in the city for a century or more. On 12 M a y 1982, a bulldozer driver working on a development scheme just outside the Trust's long-running Coppergate excavations iit the heart of the Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval city, unearthed an Anglo-Saxon helmet, only the third, after the Sutton Hoo and Benty Grange examples, to have been found. The Coppergate helmet was in a superb state of preservation. Peter Addyman, Director of the Trust, has provided us with a first account, prepared by members of the Trust's stafl, giving details of the discovery, a description of the helmet itself, and a note on preliminary investigations carried out upon it. MY Addyman begins:

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