{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"#64 Staffordshire Hoard Helmet","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e79d1fda44fd2e675c812e2/7d472a30f7ff9bfb1b42c95e4d9e6719.png?height=200","description":"With Pieta Greaves and Dr Jenni Butterworth. The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ever discovered. Heavily damaged before it was buried, the 7th century treasure contains more than 4,000 precious fragments, approximately a third of which are now known to come from a single, very high-status helmet. \n\n\nFrom 2014 to 2017, the helmet was studied as part of the major research project on the treasure funded by Historic England and the museums which care for the collection. This extensive research enabled experts to identify the fragments which belonged to the helmet, believed to have been made around AD 600-650.\n\n\nHelmets of this period are incredibly rare - there are only five other Anglo-Saxon helmets known. The detail and bold crested design means the Staffordshire Helmet is likely to have had an important owner.\n\n\nIt will never be possible to reassemble the original physically. Instead, the project explored how the original may have been made and what it looked like, enabling archaeologists to understand its construction better and test theories about its structure and assembly.\n\n\nThe reconstructions were created over an 18-month period by a team of specialist makers bringing together ancient craft techniques and cutting-edge technology.\n\n\nView photos of the Hoard Helmet here.\n\n\nProducer: Dan Morelle\n\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nInstagram: https://instagram.com/DrJaninaRamirez\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArtDetectivePod \nTwitter: https://twitter.com/DrJaninaRamirez \nFacebook: https://facebook.com/DrJaninaRamirez\nFacebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/ArtDetective \n\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nArt Detective Patreon Supporters\n\n\npatreon.com/ArtDetective\n\n\nAmanda Cooke\nAndrew Robeson\nAndrew West\nBecky Head\nBernard Fildes\nbritta\nCatherine Rowley-Williams\nChloe Guttridge\nChris Chatterton\nChris Douglass\nColin Beeby\nDaniel Ramirez \nDavid Parker\nFi Cooper\nGeorge Green\nIldi Pelikan\nJanet Lee\nJenny\nJoanne Benjamin Dzho Mckeown\nJoseph Maleczek\nKanidra McGill\nKeiran Lancaster\nKevin Cannell\nKevin Valdes Parra\nKirsty\nMargaret Szedenits\nMargy Mayell \nMark Stack\nMCMatz\nMeg Jones\nMichele Olender\nNeil Holmes\nNicola Capon\nNina Ramirez\nPatricia McLean\nPaul Flatt\nPete Biggs\nPhilip Corlis\nQuoc Vo\nRoger Little\nStephen Lawrence\nTammy Miller\nTanchira Arjinkit\nVanessa Rowlands\nWayne Quigg For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy","author_name":"Laluma"}