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Roman helmet from Ribchester, Lancashire
The drawing shows a rear view of a helmet found with other equipment at Ribchester in 1796. It shows the figures of combatants embossed on the helmet. The helmet is in two parts, the skull, decorated wirh combatants on horseback and on foot, and the visor, which represents the mask of an idealised youth wearing a diadem. The diadem represents, in a stylised way, a fortified town by a river, wit…
Creator
- British Museum
- Tendi, A
- Townley, Charles
- Townley Collection
Subject
- Armour and Weapons
- Drawings
- Metalwork
- archaeology
- Goldwork
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Creator
- British Museum
- Tendi, A
- Townley, Charles
- Townley Collection
Subject
- Armour and Weapons
- Drawings
- Metalwork
- archaeology
- Goldwork
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
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Rights
- British Museum|Tendi, A|Townley, Charles|Townley Collection
Temporal
- Roman
Places
- British Museum
- England
- Europe
- Lancashire
- Ribchester
- United Kingdom
- England
- United Kingdom
- Ribchester
- Lancashire
Provenance
- Society of Antiquaries of London Catalogue of Drawings and Museum Objects: Britannia Romana
Source
- Archaeology Data Sevice
Identifier
- society_albums/britannia_romana/br80
Is part of
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/SoA_images/index.cfm?CFID=9579&CFTOKEN=BF7E76A0-D723-4BB2-9AC4B2BE9A527C12
References
- B J N Edwards, The Ribchester Hoard (Preston: Lancashire County Books, 1992).|Bill Wyman and Richard Havers, Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands: Britain's History Uncovered (Stroud: Sutton, 2005), pp. 118-19. Illustration, p. 119.|British Museum, Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1958), p. 67. Illustration (Photograph), fig. 4, pl. XXVI, opp. p. 67.|British Musuem, A Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (London: British Museum, 1922), p. 80. Illustration (Engraving), pl. V, opp. p. 80.|I P Stephenson and K R Dixon, Roman Cavalry Equipment (Stroud: Tempus, 2003), pp. 20-21. Illustrations, p. 22; pl. 1, following p. 63.|Joseph Farington, The Diary of Joseph Farington (Kenneth Garlick, Angus Macintyre, and Kathryn Cave, eds.) 17 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978-1998), 4, p. 1174.|R P Jackson and P T Craddock, 'The Ribchester Hoard: A Descriptive and Technical Study', in Barry Raftery, ed., Sites and Sights of the Iron Age: Essays on Fieldwork and Museum Research Presented to Ian Mathieson Stead (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1995), pp. 75-102. Illustrations (Photographs), no. 1, fig. 47, p. 77; fig. 48, p. 79.|T W Potter, Roman Britain (London: British Museum Press, 1997), p. 50. Illustration, fig. 32, p. 50.|Vetusta Monumenta 4 (1815): 1-12. Illustration (Engraving by Basire dated 1799), pl. III, between pp. 12 and 13. The drawing is reproduced in plate III. Pl. I shows a side view of the helemt, fig. 1, pl. II shows a front view of the helmet, fig. 2, pl. II shows the diadem, and the illustration on page 12 shows the diadem unrestored.
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-10-26T02:53:22.909Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-23T22:20:57.607Z