Benty Grange helmet
Yelmo de Benty Grange
- Date
- 1848 · confidence high
- Place
- Monyash, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Thomas Bateman
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Thomas Bateman excavated the Benty Grange helmet from a Derbyshire burial mound, a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon boar-crested helmet, the first of its kind found in England.
What it led to
- The later discovery of the Sutton Hoo helmet (1939)
- Study of boar symbolism in Anglo-Saxon culture
- Conservation techniques for metal and horn
- Cataloguing of Anglo-Saxon helmets (Coppergate, Staffordshire)