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2,000 year old Roman Helmet

An exciting new find in the form of a 2,000 year old Roman Helmet, has been unveiled this week at the British Museum and will be displayed along with the rest of the Hallaton Treasure at Harborough Museum from Saturday the 28h January 2012.

The helmets has taken over a decade of painstaking work to reconstruct, with hundreds of fragments needing to be pieced back together by the British Museum restoration team. Through this process the team have derived that the helmet is made from iron, silver and gold leaf, between AD25 and AD 50. It was joked to just be a rusty old bucket, but was soon found to be much more! The helmet has intricate designs of a Roman emperor, a bust of a woman, a wealth and various animals. This exciting find was discovered along with the largest number of Iron Age coins ever excavated in Britain, over 5,000 coins dating to about AD 20-50.

It is much debated as to why exactly this helmet ended up in the east Midlands and perhaps we will never know why. Could it have been taken in battle, a gift or have been worn and brought home by a Briton who fought in the Roman army. Take a look at the British Museum website for more details, or head to Harborough Museum to see the treasure for yourself.

Palestine Exploration Fund - Free Lecture Series

The Evans Memorial Lecture
Graham Davies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
4pm Thursday 8th December in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre

The Society of Biblical Archaeology was a prominent forum for the study of the Ancient Near East, both in London where it was founded and internationally, for nearly fifty years.

The lecture will investigate why the Society was founded, who were its leading lights, what it did and, perhaps most puzzling, why it came to a premature end just when other societies, like the Palestine Exploration Fund, continued to thrive.

Wanderings in the Wilderness: Surveys in the Wadi Itm and along the Hejaz Railway of Southern Jordan
David Thorpe, Great Arab Revolt Project
4pm Thursday 12th January in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre

For the last seven years the Great Arab Revolt Project (GARP) has reconnoitred, surveyed, excavated and collected anthropological data along the length of the Hejaz Railway from Ma’an to Mudawarra.

This lecture will focus on the projects of late 2010 and spring of 2011 to bring GARP’s recent wanderings in the southern Jordanian wilderness to life.

From Cave to Grave: Menachem Ussishkin, Eleazar Sukenik and the Unknown Nichanor's Tomb-Cave on Mt. Scopus.
Yair Shapiro, Hebrew University Jerusalem
4pm Thursday 22nd March in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre

All lectures are held at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, The British Museum, from 4:00pm, on Thursday afternoons.

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