When I posted last about about my Waterloo helmets, they looked like this: The most obvious omission at that points was the terminals at the tips of the horns. The British Museum claims that the originals were cast in situ, but … Continued
I have long been fascinated by the iconic Waterloo helmet, housed in the British Museum. The Iron Age original sports horns, fine repoussé decoration, hatched bronze rondels that were once enamelled, and hundreds of tiny spherical-headed rivets. Sounds like a daunting build – … Continued