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The Coppergate Helmet (pictured), the best preserved of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, was discovered.
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Coppergate Helmet
8th-century Anglo-Saxon helmet
The Coppergate Helmet is an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon helmet found in York, England. It was discovered in May 1982 during excavations for the Jorvik Viking Centre at the bottom of a pit that is thought to have once been a well.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Anglo-Saxons
Early medieval Old-English-speaking cultural group in Britain
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who became one of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)