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Name: Auxiliary Cavalry ACH 04 (Nuremberg)
Robinson type: Auxiliary Cavalry H
Findspot: From the Danube near Straubing (DEU)
Date: late 2nd to early 3rd century AD
Now kept: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.
Dimensions: Unknown
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Remarks:
  1. Soldered on bronze wire mouldings quarter the top of the iron helmet. There is also a circular moulding soldered to the crown.
  2. A wide bronze strip is applied around the ear openings. There is also a bronze strip around the edge of the neck guard.
  3. This is pierced by two holes for the rivets of a carrying handle, since lost.
  4. Photos, (c) Luc de Vos
References:
  1. Robinson, H.R. (1975), "The Armour of Imperial Rome", (Arms & Armour Press), p.103, No.293-4
Now kept: Nuremberg

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