At 9am on Tuesday 10 January the reconstructed Hallaton Helmet was unveiled to the media at the British Museum in London. The reconstructed bowl was displayed alongside two cheekpieces which were found alongside it. Many people who attended the event couldn’t believe how fantastic it looked having only ever seen it previously as hundreds of fragments in the British Museum’s conservation lab. The quote of the day went to Ken Wallace, finder of the Hallaton Treasure, who said he was “gobsmacked” to see it looking like a proper Roman helmet.
Conservator, Marilyn Hockey, (pictured here with the helmet) was joined by colleagues Fleur Shearman and Duygu Çamurcuoglu as photographers clicked and TV cameras rolled. Their ten year conservation project made international headlines the following day. Harborough Museum launch next on Saturday 28 January!
Marilyn Hockey and the Helmet © The Trustees of the British Museum
