Posted on 09/23/2018 3:39:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Eastern Slovakia Museum in Kosice has presented two unique bronze helmets from the late Bronze Age. A mushroom picker found them last year near the village of Trhoviste in Michalovce county. The finder brought the objects to the museum in January of this year.
The museum's archaeologist Dárius Gasaj informed the Regional Monument's Board.
"This precious finding consists of two Bronze helmets, partly stuck to each other. There were also two pairs of protective cheek pads and two spiral arm guards," said Róbert Pollák, director of the museum, as quoted by the SITA newswire.
The finder wishes to remain anonymous. The archaeologist with a colleague from the Regional Monument's Board examined the site of the find in detail...
Discoveries of helmets from the Bronze Age are rare not only in Slovakia but in the whole of Europe, according to Gasaj. The helmets from Trhoviste are western European style made from two shaped bronze plates. The decorated sides are connected with a central three-toothed comb that has a hole for attaching a decorative plume. Other holes at the sides and at the bottom edge are to attach the protective cheek pads.
Only three similar pieces had been found, all of them in the Eastern Alpine area... Similar helmets have been found in Lúãky, Spisská Belá and Iaskov but they were made only from one sheet of bronze. They originated between the 12th and 10th century BC.
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Here’s the big krater, from the Vix burial in Burgundy, France — details shown in other photos include crested helmets. The archival photo used in the video I saw this morning showed a conservator working on the vase while *inside* the vase.
Celtic find in France leaves archaeologists baffled
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/14/celtic-find-in-france-leaves-archaeologists-baffled/
YouTube assumes that about everyone, but still include assorted Trump-bashing excerpts from late night TV all-talk shows.
That's why, even today, you have ship propellers made of bronze
Were their skulls inside the helmets?
You've been watching that show The Vikings again, haven't you? ;^)
The Simpsons show when at a football game a helmet flew off and landed in Cletus’s lap and he was disappointed that it was empty. Game of Thrones writer probably stole the idea.
My pleasure. Seconds on what PapaBear3625 said; brass and bronze were used in various moving parts in steam locomotives because ferrous parts would turn to irregularly ruined crap from oxidation. Instead, the soft parts had to be swapped out a lot, the metal recycled into new parts. The transition to diesel-electric locomotives led to a drop in jobs in the railhead in Denver (that's from the creaky floorboards part of the memory attic).
Game of thrones... here’s a topic just crying out to be posted:
Ancient altar reveals Mayan ‘Game of Thrones’ dynasty
AFP News
https://www.france24.com/en/20180914-ancient-altar-reveals-mayan-game-thrones-dynasty
Bronze oxidation forms a protective layer that preserves the metal.......................
A patina, which only adds to the value of sculptures or other art works. So I’ve been told.
Yes, and don’t you dare ‘polish it up’!............The museum director would have a heart attack!.................
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