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Jan 10 2012 ∞
Finishing a 3D, 2,000 year-old Roman jigsaw puzzle: the Hallaton helmet unveiled British Museum conservator Marilyn Hockey, and colleagues Fleur Shearman and Duygu Camurcuoglu undertook the micro-excavation, stabilisation and reconstruction of the hundreds of fragments – a task described as being like a 3D jigsaw puzzle. Thanks to this process we know the helmet was probably made between AD 25 and AD 50 and that it was crafted from sheet iron, covered with silver sheet and decorated in places with gold leaf.

Finishing a 3D, 2,000 year-old Roman jigsaw puzzle: the Hallaton helmet unveiled

British Museum conservator Marilyn Hockey, and colleagues Fleur Shearman and Duygu Camurcuoglu undertook the micro-excavation, stabilisation and reconstruction of the hundreds of fragments – a task described as being like a 3D jigsaw puzzle. Thanks to this process we know the helmet was probably made between AD 25 and AD 50 and that it was crafted from sheet iron, covered with silver sheet and decorated in places with gold leaf.

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    Conservation is such slow going. In a conservation course I took, I reconstructed a wine bottle I broke for an...
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