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The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.
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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)
Benty Grange helmet
7th-century boar-crested Anglo-Saxon helmet
The Benty Grange helmet is an Anglo-Saxon boar-crested helmet from the 7th century AD. It was excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1848 from a tumulus at the Benty Grange farm in Monyash in western Derbyshire. The grave had probably been looted by the time of Bateman's excavation, but…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tumulus
Mound of earth and stones raised over graves
A tumulus is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, mounds, howes, or in Siberia and Central Asia as kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Benty Grange
Site of Special Scientific Interest in Derbyshire, England
Benty Grange is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Monyash in Derbyshire, England. 21.1 ha in size and with at least four grass species and ten other plant species, it is considered of national importance as one of the largest areas of unimproved species-rich…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Derbyshire
County of England
Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south and west, and Cheshire to the west. Derby…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)