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Here in York, an Anglo-Saxon warrior takes great care to hide his most precious possession, his helmet, tucking the cheek pieces and chainmail within its cavity and placing it upside down into the depths of a well, with all intentions of retrieving it once this threat passes. Only it didn’t. Centuries passed, the anaerobic conditions preserving its iron shell, interlacing animal nose guard, copper alloy band of Latin crossing its crest and all 1,947 wire rings making up the chainmail. Until it w