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Roman replicas: Recreating the Hallaton Helmet
The Hallaton Helmet, an ornately decorated piece of Roman cavalry equipment discovered in rural Leicestershire in 2000, is undeniably an important artefact – but how do you interpret its now-fragmentary imagery for museum visitors? Helen Sharp describes an initiative that created two contrasting reproductions using traditional and cutting-edge techniques.
When Ken Wallace and other members of the Hallaton Fieldwork Group discovered Iron Age and Roman pottery in a field near the village of Hallaton, south-east Leicestershire, at the turn of the millennium, little did they realise that they had recovered the first pieces of what would become known as the Hallaton Treasure (see CA 188), an intriguing collection of finds that continues to captivate those who see it two decades later.
Recreations of the Hallaton Helmet by Francesco Galluccio (on the left) and Rajesh Gogna (on the right).
The group went on to investigate the hilltop site alongside archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services, and across three excavation
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