The Only Gladiator Helmet Ever Discovered in Britain!

[@williamrobinson7435]

Excellent! It certainly sends a shiver down the spine such as no film, however good the acting, CGI etc can, that this stuff is 2000 years old. Nice one Tristan and team! 🌟👍

[@williamrobinson7435]

Wow! I'm not sure I've been pinned b4. I feel like a butterfly! 😁🐛🦋

[@davidsullivan7743]

Really enjoyed this video, thank you. Plus as a bonus it was fun reading all the comments from amateurs who think they are better than experts who have spent their whole careers identifying artefacts. Oh, by the way, a roman soldier was known as a legionary not a legionaire, that is the name for a soldier of a unit like the French Foreign Legion for example

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

I would so love to visit there and take all the historic sites in.

[@Jay-ql4gp]

We tend to think of Rome as some mythical place. But Emperor Marcinus creating a coin to commemorate the coliseum being repaired is something that would happen today.

[@Revelationthankful]

Just like attacking your neighbor to steal their land

[@Tony11442]

No one thinks Rome is a mythical place. And that emperor is called Macrinus, not Marcinus.

[@Asgoga]

Fun facts: That Severus Alexander Sestertius coin is extremely rare only few specimens are know, there is also much more rare Colosseum Gold Aureus and Silver Denarius minted during Severus Alexander reign, former sold 16y ago for 800.000$, but there is little bit more common and very similar Colosseum Medallion of Severus Alexander too ( interestingly Roman Medallions are almost always much more rare, expensive and quite mysterious pieces compared to their contemporary coins ) which are much more larger around 35-40mm, very great quality one sold a decade ago for around 100.000€. Luckily most Ancient Numismatic items are affordable even in great quality which i own many of them, but also compared to Banana with a duct tape on the wall that sold for 6million pounds these pieces are real timeless unique art pieces that tell important historical events and not just easy way to wash your dirty money.

[@englishjim6428]

Presenter should stick to his day job building models of the Acropolis out of toilet roll tubes and papier mache on Blue Peter. Thank goodness we have all the ‘experts’ in the comments to the correct to know nothing Dr’s of Archaeology at the British Museum.

[@johncaldwell-wq1hp]

It's all about Equality,--with store bought "degrees"-"Hey !!-look I'm a "Genius"-!!

[@michaelwilkinson2928]

It looks like a standard helmet, possibly a coolus. Rivets at the front are very common on Imperial Gallic and Imperial Italic helmets.

[@paula3124]

Looks like a Gallic G type.

[@michaelwilkinson2928]

@@paula3124 No 'eyebrows' on the front though...........

[@davidrudd9846]

No interest in Movie since the Trailers showed gladiators riding Rhinos into the Colosseum Still love real British and Roman history!!!!!

[@julianshepherd2038]

I wasn't interested but riding a rhino sounds epic. So cool these Romans

[@KernowekTim]

Same. Ridiculous Americanised foolishness.

[@justin12537]

@@KernowekTim club of rome

[@frankhernandez6883]

*RHINO riding was typical in Rome since OSTRICHES were sooo hard to catch!* 🤣🤣

[@shable1436]

Please, it's a crap movie, we all know this, at least ppl that actually know a little about real Roman history

[@thomaslaw9764]

The green lamp bird is a Peregrine Falcon. We could easily remake that today.

[@BIATEC88]

Looks more like a Roman legionarie helmet to me. I wonder how many of those have been found. I would have thought alot but I thought therr would be more than one Gladiator helmet found but I suppose it's not that surprising thrre hasn't.

[@majackson14]

Nah, that hole is the birds eye...the small mark in front it's nostril...🤷‍♂️

[@Tony11442]

I agree

[@98Zai]

No, a falcon's nostril is on the beak.

[@warbearin]

Rome was awesome but ngl, was kinda dissapointed they didnt have a single set of roman centurion/soldier armour anywhere.

[@linimcfc715]

Just walked out of the British museum a few hours ago. Wow, what a building that is, and the artefacts are just something else. It's absolutely brilliant.. It's a must for everyone... and it's free... but it would be nice to slip them at least a fiver in support 🩵 loved it

[@scottmulholland1329]

I could spend a week in there! A must see for anyone

[@scottmulholland1329]

The Museum - not the sight of myself spending a whole week in the Museum!

[@shaundavenport621]

Naples museum has four intact gladiator helmets from Pompeii. 😊

[@thefirstcastisthedeepest1825]

Of course the hole is the eye, the smaller more oval shaped thing is the nostril of the eagle’s beak

[@johnthekeane]

Can we have the same video but for adults, please?

[@genghisgalahad8465]

Filmed on a rocky boat at sea in a storm!

[@grumblewoof4721]

I've been looking for that helmet, was my favourite.

[@DavidJohnRedwood]

The things the Romans left behind are most interesting. An interesting and informative video, thanks 👍 (I have not previously thought there were gladiators in England. I had thought that was just something done in Rome)😅 On a closely related, yet not strictly relevant here, a Spanish helmet was discovered in the water off Wellington, New Zealand. It is dated at approx 14 - 15 th centuries (but there is no record of any Europeans coming to New Zealand previous to the Dutch captain Abel Tasman in 1642) 🎯

[@johncaldwell-wq1hp]

Weak,-& controlled by his Mother,--="Mama's-Boy"-sound exactly,like Myself-!!--my Mother was still blowing my nose for me at 40--& dressing me,!!--also,-on my "Wedding-night"-I had to call her,-& find out "what-to-do"-!!-of course i live on my own now,(I'm still picking Vase Fragments,-from the back of my head !!)--Sorry to Digress,--Great Show I love it !!

[@bellakaldera3305]

It's Brass? How thick is the metal? Would it have been able to take a hit, or was it for show and not expected to provide actual head protection? The brow guard suggests that it might provide some protection, is there any evidence of how it was worn (suspension?).

[@RandySchmidt-bd5nj]

Looks like a Roman soldier helmet

[@evanmorris1178]

The “expert” is basically lying. Not one of the details he uses to argue for it to be a gladiator helmet is accurate. He even admits it’s nothing like the Pompei helmets, after saying it was. It’s a standard type of legionary helmet. Not to say it couldn’t have been used by a gladiator. You have to use what you have at hand,I suppose. But there’s nothing about it to even suggest it was used that way. It’s amazing enough as a helmet worn by a Roman soldier during the integration of Britain into the Roman Empire.

[@seanbumstead1250]

Looks like a roman army helmet not a gladiator one

[@Tony11442]

I don't think so

[@purefoldnz3070]

@@Tony11442 yeah he's right it does look like a galea, a Roman soldier's helmet

[@alberttatlock5104]

Colchester my home Town !

[@stanboyd5820]

Gladiator helmet? Clutching at straws. Looks very much like a standard legionary service helmet (pre Trajan) to me.

[@gregorydonatelli3429]

Okay, I admit it 'looks' like a helmet, but declare it a gladiator helmet??? Far Fetched. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@terryallen1529]

Ad fantastic 😊

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

.Thanks.

[@TomSuntotheMax]

So sick of film makers who have to try to make history better than it truly was. They always fail and then you get people who try to tell you that how it was in the film was how it was. I won't be going to see gladiator 2 for sure.

[@cowboybowfishingoutdoors5013]

well both were based on fictional stories and not actual history 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@reecestiller6102]

Damn, even way back in 200AD I would have had to have bothered to get money.

[@lianefehrle9921]

15:38 I really don’t think it goes on a sword. It is worn on the sides

[@jamesmoore9511]

#1 size of an old English Penny, remember them?

[@KernowekTim]

I'm giving the silly movie a swerve. I much prefer to be 'up close and personal' with facts and artefacts. The celebration of Roman bestial cruelties will never dissipate. We are, as a species, technologically advanced killer apes with an isatiable lust for violence. Better the more modern museum than the ancient gladitorial arena. Thank you Tristan. Most interesting.

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

Haha. We as a species do not have an insatiable lust for violence. We are over crowded and competing for resources. The competition for limited space and finite resources is only going to get worse in the future.

[@KernowekTim]

@@perceivedvelocity9914 I suggest that history dictates otherwise. Over-crowding is a relatively modern phenomenon. Professional boxing is violence, watching violent films is a passion for millions, so yes, as a species we lust for violence. There's no fun, 'til someone dies.

[@sebastianganga266]

that helmet is a late legionnaire one

[@tdtdtd1826]

How they can be sure its was the coliseum of Rome on the coin? Just sheer Speculation

[@paula3124]

Not speculation at all. They know that Severus Alexander had the Colluseum repaired at the time the coin was minted. There is only ONE Colluseum, btw, & it's the one in Rome.

[@Antipodean33]

Nah mate thats a firemans helmet from the 1800's

[@LuzMaria95]

this is SO COOL!!!!!!!

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

It looks like a regular legionairs helmet Not a gladiator helmet

[@lemon_j22]

Cool!

[@davidupton4730]

I don’t know the age of the viewing public this is aimed at but for anyone above the age of 6 this guys waffling is the most patronising rubbish I have heard since Blue Peter?

[@motaman8074]

Do yourself a favor. Skip seeing Gladiator 2.

[@CharlesKatehis]

The Romans had no pockets.

[@WarrenAllen-y3t]

Thats a Roman Legion helment

[@grayghost6692]

Uhhh thst looks like a legionnaire’s helmet not a gladiator

[@petermoscone3115]

It could be a helmet worn by a gladiator type called Gallus. Their helmet was quite similar to a legionnaire helmet

[@andrewnorgrove6487]

The helmet was likely used as a flowerpot for a century or two 🤣🤣

[@Tony11442]

9:42 the hole is definitely ment to be the eye. What's in front of the hole is the nostril not the eye.

[@MickRiley]

Without doubt, the holes, the eye, and the other is a nostril in the tissue around it called the cere. Anyone into hawks falcons, etc, would know this. The placement is pretty realistic.

[@aaronjaben7913]

@@MickRiley I thought it looked like a falcon, not an eagle too

[@AnugaPerera-ck7xv]

Please do a british empire

[@PS_____]

Ooo, I'd love the empire to regain it's former glory. All these anti-colonialism weirdos ruining a good thing.

[@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo]

That would be fantastic, I love the British Empire they gave the world so much.

[@julianshepherd2038]

​@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oopinched a lot more. Empires aren't about being nice, that is not what we shed blood for. Read Orwell's Burmese Days.

[@daddyjay6375]

British museum has the worlds largest collection of homo erotic Art….so yes they have an interest in gladiators 😀

[@imadude8998]

skip to 16:21 for the possible gladiator helmet.

[@justin12537]

We are still in the Roman Empire 😂

[@gregedmand9939]

Say what? The closest modern remnant just might be if you lived in Vatican City. Most of us actually don't.

[@robertwalker951]

Ridley Scott is useless napoleon was sh..i.t

[@skyhigh1154]

Gladiator 2 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮

[@speakupriseup4549]

You couldn't pay me enough to waste my time going to watch Gladiator 2 or ANY other woke Hollywood trash

[@hal90001]

There's nothing British in the British museum

[@Oldtanktapper]

Absolute bollocks. Go and have a look before commenting again.

[@kelvinlambert4249]

The uneducated spouting woke prop. Of course these artifacts would be laying around today for all to see in situ if they had not been maliciously rescued, preserved and esteemed. I think not.

[@robertdnero2217]

So, you've never been to the British Museum.

[@ForGreece7434]

The Brittish Museum, profiteers of pilfered artefacts. Have no problem with their profitting from artefacts found in Britain but their refusal to return the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece, prioritising their desire for profit above Greece's rights to stolen artifacts is sickening. I cant watch anything associated with these theives and scoundrels as a matter of protest 👎

[@robtt997]

Well why watch this ?

[@davidsullivan7743]

Yes, it's as if Russia never had an empire of its own, isn't it? Where exactly do you think Russia got its own looted artefacts to fill museums like The Hermitage?

[@ForGreece7434]

@davidsullivan7743 Are you attempting to justify the British Museum theft by stating other museums steal artifacts? I am not aware of any decades long request for the return of any Russian held artifacts. I doubt you would claim that theft is justified in a world where theft o curs when it came to YOUR property-if someone stole your car would you accept that it should not be returned because other people in other countries steal cars?

[@ForGreece7434]

@robtt997 I didn't.

[@davekeating.]

And Ireland wants her Six Counties back but England can keep Sir Bob Geldolf!

[@simonnomis5302]

another artifact from a foreign culture...nothing new...actually britai was always a wet boring place...soon on ebay?

[@vincecallagher7636]

What a poor example, I wish they would have shown us one from the other areas that were in better condition, so we could have some comparison.

[@motaman8074]

You're joking, right?

[@vincecallagher7636]

@ I get your point , it’s rare, I appreciate that, I just thought it would be good to have a relevant example. The piece makes it hard to understand what the original looked like.

[@juliefaulkner5497]

@@vincecallagher7636 They showed an example in the Arena.

[@vincecallagher7636]

@ that’s true

[@CappyRev]

Nah definitely stolen, not "discovered"

[@danny-2951]

It's not a gladiator helmet but a 1. Century legionary helmet

[@Penrodyn]

Would they have made a legionary helmet out of brass? I would assumed that soldier helmets would be made out of iron.

[@evanmorris1178]

Well. That’s a silly assumption. Why not do the tiniest bit of research? I’ve made similar mistakes…Yeah, Bronze and Brass helmets were very common, and served right alongside Iron ones. A great many of the “Itallic” style helmets are made that way. This is a later style, but some workshops were still making them into the 2nd C. AD. See H. Russel Robinson’s book on Roman Helmets.

[@Penrodyn]

@@evanmorris1178 sorry for upsetting you, but good to learn something new.

[@evanmorris1178]

@ Hardly upset! I was trying to be funny. It is weird the Brass and Bronze helmets lasted so long. Probably an establish industry, or something.