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Two adults stood looking at a display case with the remains of a helmet with a boar on top - there is a modern replica below the original. The background is a exhibition area with visitors and other displays including the Iron Age Roundhouse. Two adults stood looking at a display case with the remains of a helmet with a boar on top - there is a modern replica below the original. The background is a exhibition area with visitors and other displays including the Iron Age Roundhouse.

© Andy Brown

© Andy Brown

Benty Grange Helmet

Continuing Display

Weston Park Museum

This 7th century, boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet is one of the most significant objects in Sheffield’s museum collections.

 

It was excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1848 at the Benty Grange farm in Monyash, Derbyshire and was the first Anglo-Saxon helmet to be discovered.

See it in the Beneath Your Feet gallery alongside a replica showing what it would have looked like when it was first made.

 

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Two adults stood looking at a display case with the remains of a helmet with a boar on top - there is a modern replica below the original. The background is a exhibition area with visitors and other displays including the Iron Age Roundhouse.

© Andy Brown

  • Corroded pieces of an anglo Saxon helmet reconstructed on a Perspex frame with a decorative figure of a boar on top.

    Benty Grange Helmet, of iron, from Benty Grange, Derbyshire, c.650

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  • Boar detail from the Benty Grange Helmet, from Benty Grange, Derbyshire, c.650

    © Sheffield Museums

  • Benty Grange Helmet reconstruction

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  • Boar detail from Benty Grange Helmet reconstruction

    © Sheffield Museums

 

 

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