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 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 ...

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But, if the Sutton Hoo helmet really did come from Denmark rather than Sweden, it stands to upend what historians believe about the balance of power in seventh-century Europe.

Object Details Author British Museum Department of British and Medieval Antiquities Bruce-Mitford, Rupert Leo Scott 1914-1994- Notes ANTH copy (39088007784200) has bookplate: From the Library of T.

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The excavation was filmed for “ Time Team,” a British television show that broadcasts archaeological digs. The team’s dig was the most intensive excavation at Sutton Hoo since the 2000s.