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The Latin inscription on the Coppergate helmet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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The Coppergate helmet, found in central York in 1982 and of Anglo-Saxon date, bears a Latin inscription. A new reading of the inscription is offered, and a different view consequently taken of its significance.
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