Abstract
SUMMARY: Copper alloy fittings depicting a plumed knight’s helmet have recently begun showing up among Scandinavian metal detector finds. Museum parallels suggest that they belong to carriage harness and date from the early nineteenth century. At this time the nobility lost ancient privileges, craftguilds were abolished, steam power was being harnessed and literary Romanticism focusedattention on the Middle Ages and imagined knightly virtues.
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