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Name: Imperial Gallic G 3 (Colchester)
Robinson type: Imperial Gallic G
Findspot: Colchester, Period VI, Pit A21 - a small hollow filled with ash and charcoal. Evidently, the helmet fragments were dumped in a sack, following the Roman clear up after the Boudiccan destrucion.
Date: Mid 1st century AD
Now kept: Colchester museum.
Dimensions: Unknown
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Remarks:
  • The drawing shown in H&H is a composite one; there is no proof that the fragments found came from the same helmet.
  • The helmet is made of iron, with the neck guard and hinged cheek pieces edged with bonze binding.
  • The forehead is edged with a repoussé bronze strip.
  • On the crown is riveted a bronze strip, raised in the centre  form an open-ended slot for the mounting of a crest.
  • Mark Martin and Wim van Broekhoven.
References:
  • Hawkes, C.F.C. & Hull, M.R. (1947), "Camulodunum. First report on the Excavations at Colchester, 1930-39", (Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, No.14, Oxford), p.336-7 & fig 62.
Now kept: Colchester

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