Insights on Batavian cavalry mask

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Here is a wonderful article about new insights on a Batavian cavalry mask discovered four years ago:

 

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The corroded, lumpy metal plate was brought to the Archaeological Museum in Krefeld for documentation, conservation, and study. When the piece was X-rayed, archaeologists recognized they had a part of a cavalry mask after spotting an eye slit, an ear, and a rivet where the helmet attachment was most probable.

Archaeologists had discovered that  the rusty corroded plate they found 4 years ago at an old battlefield in the city of Krefeld, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, is a large fragment of a rare Batavian Cavalry Mask dating back to the 1st century.

Archaeologists think the mask is probably part of a face mask worn by a Batavi horseman in the Batavi War in 69.

 

 

 

 

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Only 15 masks of the Nijmegen-Kops type have been discovered so far. All of the masks found were found on the Nijmegen-Kops plateau. Most are in the Batavi region, now the Netherlands, between the Meuse and the Rhine. So the type is closely associated with Batavi horseman. It was attached to the headband of the helmet with a hinge. The emotionless silvered visage was meant to be intimidating for opponents on the battlefield and in hand-to-hand combat.

 

https://arkeonews.net/a-batavian-cavalry-mask-was-found-on-the-battlefield-of-roman-comrades/

 

Here is a post about another Roman cavalry mask discovered in Turkey:

Here is an excellent video about Roman cavalry masks:

 

 

 

Edited July 23, 2022 by guy