WEWEASE WODERWICK!

It's been in the ground for 2000 years, and it looks that good. Wow....um. Why?

indarwinsshadow: It's been in the ground for 2000 years, and it looks that good. Wow....um. Why?

Seriously?

Roman helmet, German helmet, whatever, subs. Sloppy joke writing is better than no joke writing.

probesport: WEWEASE WODERWICK!


What is a westored woman's helmet?

I like the artist's impression better. Looks like a big, twisty blob of rust. How do they get the whole "bust of a woman" and kick-ass charioteer cheek-pieces from that?

This guy's been looking for it for 2000 years:


/Link, hot

mbillips: Roman helmet, German helmet, whatever, subs. Sloppy joke writing is better than no joke writing.

I don't get it.

Hmm going by the picture I just "Restored a Roman Helmet" in the toilet a few minutes ago.

/Double flusher

Very nice work. That had to be a conservation nightmare.

There isn't much of a market for these things. I'll give you 20 bucks for it.

AverageAmericanGuy: [xee.xanga.com image 300x300]

There isn't much of a market for these things. I'll give you 20 bucks for it.

But do you know a guy who knows all about Roman Helmets?

I'm on ALL the sex offender lists.

Spear and magic helmet?

offmymeds: mbillips: Roman helmet, German helmet, whatever, subs. Sloppy joke writing is better than no joke writing.

I don't get it.

Okay, Googled 'roman helmet'. You're a sick fark, subby.

"It has been a long job, and I have come to know this object intimately." Giggidy...

mbillips: Roman helmet, German helmet, whatever, subs. Sloppy joke writing is better than no joke writing.

'mitter might still have a joke in there somewhere.

mbillips: Roman helmet, German helmet, whatever, subs. Sloppy joke writing is better than no joke writing.

Or Roman hands, Russian fingers.

Marilyn Hockey, Head of Ceramics, Glass and Metals Conservation at the British Museum, said: "This was one of the most challenging and rewarding projects of my career.

"It has been a long job, and I have come to know this object intimately."

Teen Wolf Blitzer: indarwinsshadow: It's been in the ground for 2000 years, and it looks that good. Wow....um. Why?

Seriously?

Seriously what? You're not interested that an iron helmet that should have a dissolved, managed to survive in wet English soil for almost 2000 years? I know not everyone is interested in science, but to me it's black magic? We're not talking about modern steel or even modern iron. We're talking about something that is full of impurities and should have rotted away and you're not interested? Where's your monkey curiosity?

The British Museum is full of amazing stuff. A few years ago, I saw a helmet that had been recovered from the bottom of the Thames. It was a two-horned helmet, similar to the one worn by Elmer Fudd in the Bugs Bunny classic "What's Opera, Doc?"

indarwinsshadow: Teen Wolf Blitzer: indarwinsshadow: It's been in the ground for 2000 years, and it looks that good. Wow....um. Why?

Seriously?

Seriously what? You're not interested that an iron helmet that should have a dissolved, managed to survive in wet English soil for almost 2000 years? I know not everyone is interested in science, but to me it's black magic? We're not talking about modern steel or even modern iron. We're talking about something that is full of impurities and should have rotted away and you're not interested? Where's your monkey curiosity?

You missed the part where it was reassembled over nine years from hundreds of corroded pieces? Also, if this astounds you, there are much, much older iron objects which have survived in much, much better condition, even in England.

Nine years, and that's what you have?

I'm not saying I don't understand it was broken into 900 pieces. That's not the issue. I mean Jesus's cross is technically "still around" in a million splinters and carbon atoms which have long since rotted and become integrated in a million other living things, so reconstructing something would be quite difficult.

I'm saying all you've got here is an unrecognizable lump of... "brown". Nine years. Tell me this was not your SOLE work duty over the past nine years.

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There isn't much of a market for these things. I'll give you 20 bucks for it.

I'm saying, if it was in GOOD condition, like it would still stop a sword to the skull, I could sell it for a lot, but this is gonna have to be something kept in the back room, not an exhibit thing.

NobleHam: indarwinsshadow: Teen Wolf Blitzer: indarwinsshadow: It's been in the ground for 2000 years, and it looks that good. Wow....um. Why?

Seriously?

Seriously what? You're not interested that an iron helmet that should have a dissolved, managed to survive in wet English soil for almost 2000 years? I know not everyone is interested in science, but to me it's black magic? We're not talking about modern steel or even modern iron. We're talking about something that is full of impurities and should have rotted away and you're not interested? Where's your monkey curiosity?

You missed the part where it was reassembled over nine years from hundreds of corroded pieces? Also, if this astounds you, there are much, much older iron objects which have survived in much, much better condition, even in England.

No, I read that part. I'm just amazed it didn't turn into rust powder. It's great there was enough material left to reassemble it, but, think of the average car in a northern climate where they use salt on the roads. The car will literally fall apart within 8-10 years. Now, this helmet which is (probably) full of sulfur and slag impurities managed to hold together (albeit in tiny fragments) over 2 thousand years. That's pretty cool.

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CitizenTed: THIS.

And worth noting: ancient artifacts tend to do reasonably well in environments that are consistently wet or consistently dry. It is the wet/dry cycle that rots 'em up real good.

That is very interesting, you know I'd like to have a cool museum job where you get to do cool things like this. I wonder what kind of training you need. Sure as shiat would beat what I do know, trolling the internet for five cents a farking post in order to drive page views. Oh anyway, back to the old grindstone:

Consistently wet environments, huh? Maybe they should store it in your mom's underpants!

FTA...The helmet was found with hundreds of coins and a large quantity of pig bones.

Go on....

gwenners: This guy's been looking for it for 2000 years:
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/Link, hot

Was waiting for that

Oznog: AverageAmericanGuy: [xee.xanga.com image 300x300]

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There isn't much of a market for these things. I'll give you 20 bucks for it.

I'm saying, if it was in GOOD condition, like it would still stop a sword to the skull, I could sell it for a lot, but this is gonna have to be something kept in the back room, not an exhibit thing.

Listen, I know a guy who is an expert on this sort of thing. I'd like to bring him in and take a look.

offmymeds: offmymeds: mbillips: Roman helmet, German helmet, whatever, subs. Sloppy joke writing is better than no joke writing.

I don't get it.

Okay, Googled 'roman helmet'. You're a sick fark, subby.

Glad to see that you found your way onto the right thread this time.
/lulzy

FTFA:

"It has been a long job, and I have come to know this object intimately."

Hot.

TheShavingofOccam123: I love this place because nothing makes me feel like a 4 year old like Fark.

/And don't you go there


Don't you tell me what to do....

TheShavingofOccam123: One of the things I really love about Fark is some guy can spend 9 years of careful, painstaking, professional-standard work to bring back to life an ancient artifact and nearly every entry in the Fark thread will contain Elmer Fudd or toilet or turd or buttsechs references. Or a combination thereof.

I love this place because nothing makes me feel like a 4 year old like Fark.

/And don't you go there

What I like is that you think that Marilyn Hockey, Head of Ceramics of the British Museum is a "guy" and then is saw "her" picture and I thought "easy mistake to make."

Okay, I get it, the thing used to be a box of rust in the same shape as a '54 oval window VW Beetle in a New Jersey landfill... but I also concur that after *9 years* of work, that is not a lot of progress! C'mon now, we make fantastic-looking dinosaur and Neanderthal skeletons with nothing more than a skull chip and a leg fragment; are you seriously telling me that this was the very best they could do? Really?? Because I did a better job on my last Jetta II with bondo and a couple cans of Rustoleum than that, in a day. How hard could it possibly be to, I dunno, gussy it up a wee bit more than that? They have Vik helmets and swords found in the Thames that were restored far better than this!

/in a cave... with a box of scraps!

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Nine years, and that's what you have?

I'm not saying I don't understand it was broken into 900 pieces. That's not the issue. I mean Jesus's cross is technically "still around" in a million splinters and carbon atoms which have long since rotted and become integrated in a million other living things, so reconstructing something would be quite difficult.

I'm saying all you've got here is an unrecognizable lump of... "brown". Nine years. Tell me this was not your SOLE work duty over the past nine years.

Thought the same thing when I saw it. Probably better of using the nine years to look for something in better shape.

thespindrifter: Okay, I get it, the thing used to be a box of rust in the same shape as a '54 oval window VW Beetle in a New Jersey landfill... but I also concur that after *9 years* of work, that is not a lot of progress! C'mon now, we make fantastic-looking dinosaur and Neanderthal skeletons with nothing more than a skull chip and a leg fragment; are you seriously telling me that this was the very best they could do? Really?? Because I did a better job on my last Jetta II with bondo and a couple cans of Rustoleum than that, in a day. How hard could it possibly be to, I dunno, gussy it up a wee bit more than that?

And how do we know they got it right? How do we know they didn't just mush it up in a blender and then mold it into what they thought a Roman helmet should look like?

ausfahrk: And how do we know they got it right? How do we know they didn't just mush it up in a blender and then mold it into what they thought a Roman helmet should look like?

That's a damn fact. It isn't like they hand-machined the things on assembly lines, or left behind instruction manuals, blueprints, and letters discussing the merits and drawbacks of the last year's model. (Yes, I know where you were going with that bit of snark.) Nevertheless, that could have been a prototype for a slight variant common only to the British garrisons, and now we'll never know, because unless it got reassembled by one of those computer programs that the CIA uses to re-assemble cross-cut shredded documents, we have absolutely no way of knowing if rust bit #4,903 wasn't actually swapped out with rust speck # 970. Speaking of blenders, it does look an awful lot like paper maché.

I just showed my wife the pic out of context; she said it looks like some 8 year old tried to make a mullet out of clay. I've seen 17th century cannons that sat in ocean salt and crud for centuries that had cleaner lines than that "helmet".

Oznog: AverageAmericanGuy: [xee.xanga.com image 300x300]

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There isn't much of a market for these things. I'll give you 20 bucks for it.

I'm saying, if it was in GOOD condition, like it would still stop a sword to the skull, I could sell it for a lot, but this is gonna have to be something kept in the back room, not an exhibit thing.

It just needs a little more work:

It's hard to restore a turd, isn't it?

Oh yes, it's very nice!