Guilden Morden boar

The Guilden Morden boar is a sixth- or seventh-century Anglo-Saxon copper alloy figure of a boar that may have once served as the crest of a helmet. It was found around 1864 or 1865 in a grave in a village in the eastern English county of Cambridgeshire. Boar-crested helmets are a staple of Anglo- Saxon imagery, evidence of a Germanic...