In September 1878 the British Museum received a donation of a folded metal plate which had been embossed and gilded. Restoration of the object revealed that the folded plate was in fact the outer casing of a Roman copper alloy cavalry sports type helmet which dates to the late second or third century AD. The story of what became known as the Guisborough helmet began 14 years earlier in what was then the North Riding of Yorkshire when workers employed by the Cleveland Railway Company discovered a ‘very curious plate of metal’ during road construction. It appears that the helmet was deliberately prepared for deposition and buried at a depth of c30 cm close to a stream. Examination by the authors suggests that this was a high value item that had been repaired many times. Experimental evidence suggests that the decoration alone required approximately 16 h to fashion.

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Guisborough头盔的制作和沉积

1878 年 9 月，大英博物馆收到了一块经过压花和镀金的折叠金属板的捐赠。该物体的修复表明，折叠板实际上是罗马铜合金骑兵运动型头盔的外壳，可追溯到公元二或三世纪后期。被称为 Guisborough 头盔的故事始于 14 年前，当时克利夫兰铁路公司雇用的工人在道路施工期间发现了一块“非常奇怪的金属板”，当时约克郡的北骑。头盔似乎是故意准备沉积并埋在靠近溪流的 c30 厘米深处。作者的检查表明，这是一件价值很高的物品，已经修复了很多次。