23rd September 2010, 12:16 PM
EERRRMMM.....without provenance, why do you keep calling it a Roman helmet, rather than, say, a product of Camelot, or the original Hyperborean prototype upon which all Roman parade helmets were based, or maybe a modern facsimile knocked-up in a back-street garage in Carlisle by a (admittedly skilled) unemployed artesan who in no way wished to fool the archaeological and art world at all......are you privy to some independent scientific dating results not revealed to the world at large, or does it have 'Made in Italy' stamped on it somewhere? :face-stir: