| Coppergate Helmet | |
|---|---|
 The Coppergate Helmet | |
| Material | Iron, brass containing 85% copper |
| Created | 8th century |
| Discovered | 1982 York, North Yorkshire |
| Present location | Yorkshire Museum |
| Registration | YORCM : CA665 |
The Coppergate Helmet (also known as the York Helmet) is an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon helmet found in York, England. It was discovered in May 1982 during excavations for the Jorvik Viking Centre at the bottom of a pit that is thought to have once been a well.
The helmet is one of six Anglo-Saxon helmets known to have survived to the present day, and is by far the best preserved. It shares its basic form with the helmet found at Wollaston (1997), joining that find and those at Benty Grange (1848), Sutton Hoo (1939), Shorwell (2004) and Staffordshire (2009), as one of the "crested helmets" that flourished in England and Scandinavia from the sixth through to the eleventh centuries. It is now in the collections of the Yorkshire Museum.[1]
- ^ "Collections item: York helmet". York Museums Trust. Retrieved 14 February 2018.