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Featured articleShorwell helmet is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on July 25, 2018.
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DateProcessResult
January 22, 2018Good article nomineeListed
April 25, 2018Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 31, 2018.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, the Shorwell helmet was originally mistaken for a pot, the Pioneer helmet for a bucket, and the Coppergate helmet for a rock?
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I'm a bit unhappy with this sentence: Exhibiting hardly any decoration other than a speculative exterior leather covering, the Shorwell helmet was a utilitarian fighting helmet. Of course I know what is meant, but is there a better way to word it? --John (talk) 12:10, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"The helmet has hardly any decoration, but it can be speculated that there was an exterior leather covering, which might have been decorated with moulded designs" - the last bit well within AS capabilities, though I don't know if sources cover it. Johnbod (talk) 14:53, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, excellent. That's far better. --John (talk) 15:06, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]