1982
DOI: 10.1017/s0003598x00054673
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The Coppergate helmet

Abstract: 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 preserva… Show more

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“…General Comment (AKGJ): samples came from area in which Coppergate helmet was found. Results suggest helmet was buried during Anglian period (Addyman, Pearson & Tweddle, 1982).…”
Section: East Moors Seriesmentioning
confidence: 95%
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“…General Comment (AKGJ): samples came from area in which Coppergate helmet was found. Results suggest helmet was buried during Anglian period (Addyman, Pearson & Tweddle, 1982).…”
Section: East Moors Seriesmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Calculations are based on the Libby half-life of 5568 years, using NBS oxalic acid standard (x 0.95 HAR-1665HAR- , -2771HAR- , -2776HAR- , -2777 (Shoesmith, 1980 Boddington and Cadman (1981). (Cadman, 1983 (Murphy & Wilkinson, 1982 (Wilkinson & Murphy, 1983b (Bennett, Tatton-Brown & Blockley, 1980 (Addyman, Pearson & Tweddle, 1982).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Anglo-Saxon helmet found on the Coppergate site in York in May 1982 bears these words on a single strip of copper alloy which runs from above the nose over the top of the head and down to the top of the neck (Tweddle 1984, resuming and in places correcting Addyman et al 1982;Pearson et al 1982;Tweddle 1983). Two other copper alloy bands run up from above the ears to meet the principal inscribed strip at the crown of the helmet, forming a cross over the top of the head (FIGURES 1 , 2 Apart from this reversal of the first part of the inscription, some of the letters of the text are missing on the right hand side.…”
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confidence: 99%