“The Sutton Hoo helmet is iconic worldwide. It is a national treasure for the British on a par with the chariot of the sun for Danes,” said Peter Pentz, curator at the National Museum of Denmark.

The helmet was pieced together in 1939 from fragments found at the Sutton Hoo burial site in the east of England and is now an icon of Anglo-Saxon culture. | Credit: Trustees of the British Museum ...

Markings on the stamp are identical to those on the Sutton Hoo helmet. The Sutton Hoo Helmet on view at the British Museum in London, England, 2014. Photo: Oli Scarff / Getty Images.

The Sutton Hoo helmet was painstakingly pieced back together over many years after it was first uncovered broken into hundreds of pieces. And is now on display at the British Museum.

After the helmet’s first reconstruction in 1946, it went through a second rebuild in 1970-1971. This reconstruction is still on permanent display in Room 41 of the British Museum.

Alongside it were a vast array of weaponry and a 27-metre-long ship. Although the helmet belonged to a powerful war-leader we cannot be certain who was buried at Sutton Hoo.

A new display of the British Museum's unparalleled early medieval collections which include the famous Sutton Hoo treasure is scheduled to open in Room 41 in March 2014 made possible through a ...

“The Sutton Hoo helmet is iconic worldwide. It is a national treasure for the British on a par with the chariot of the sun for Danes,” said Peter Pentz, curator at the National Museum of Denmark.

A new display of the British Museum's unparalleled early medieval collections which include the famous Sutton Hoo treasure is scheduled to open in Room 41 on 27 March 2014 made possible through a ...

An ancient stamp unearthed by a metal detectorist suggests the Sutton Hoo was actually made in Denmark, and not Sweden as previously thought. The Anglo-Saxon helmet, dated to the 7th century, is one ...