Metal Detector Find Link Sutton Hoo Helmet with Denmark –

A small metal object discovered by detectives on the island of Denmark may rewrite the history of the famous Sutton Hoe helmet. The work is a stamp called “Patrice” used to hammer the design into a thin piece of metal with images of the mounted warrior that is very similar to the one on the Sutton Hoo helmet. In fact, it is so similar that the helmets are likely produced in Denmark, not in Sweden as they have long been considered.

The Sutton Hoo helmet is made of iron and covered with tin bronze sheets of gold-plated iron and gold-plated bronze. These sheets are covered with five different molds produced patterns, two molds intertwined patterns, and three for the character scenes of “Dance Warrior” and “Rider and Fallen Warrior”. The latter is a design found on TåsingePatrice.

The helmets were produced in the late 6th or early 7th century and are believed to have been manufactured in the Swedish province of Upland, where other helmets decorated with two warrior patterns were found (helmets 7 and 8 on the ship Valsgärde, from the Valsgärde Ship Burials, Helmet 1). Almost the same (albeit mirrored) design was also found on the Pliezhausen Bracteate, a gold medal mounted on the 7th-century grave of a woman in Rutlingff, southern Germany.

During the excavation of the Sutton River boat burial in 1939, the helmet was found in hundreds of debris. They were first confused in 1945-6, but archaeologists returned to the drawing board for a second reconstruction in 1970-1, which was already in trouble. These five designs were determined in the original reconstruction.

Comparing the newly discovered Patrice pattern with the Knight Warrior on Sutton Hoo’s helmet and the Swedish knights, it’s clear that the Tåsinge Patrice is closer to the Patrice on the helmet.

Similarities can be seen in the details, such as the cuffs on the wrists of the warrior, the warrior’s hair, the almond-shaped harness assembled on the horse’s head, its in rope, the sword extending under the warrior’s shield, and the circle of “rabbit” or “rabbit” or circles. The Swedish equivalent has a boar or raptor on a helmet, something invisible in Sutton Hoo’s helmet or a new discovery by Tåsinge.

There are some fragments in the second installed warrior pattern on the Sutton Hoo helmet, but few can rebuild it. The second element of the design is the power of the TåsingePatrice: the rider’s feet and the lines on the edge of the lagging warrior’s shield. None of the other patterns on Swedish and German artifacts do not have these lines beside the feet, and the Tåsinge stamp is perfectly in line with these two elements of Sutton Hoo Fragment.

If Sutton Hoo helmets were actually made on or around Tåsinge, this would change the understanding of Denmark’s role in the power balance in Nordic around 600 years.

Traces of magnificent cemeteries found in England and Sweden from this period were found in Denmark, which led some to conclude that the Denmark region did not play a significant role.

However, according to Peter Pentz, the new discovery had a stronger foundation for Denmark during this period, and might even be one of the leading Nordic powers.