Veksø helmets

The Veksø helmets are two bronze helmets from the Bronze Age, crafted with curved horns and decorated with bird-like eye and beak motifs. They are displayed at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen and show highly skilled craftsmanship and intricate decorative details.

These helmets were made around 900 BC and later deposited in a bog as ritual offerings. Workers accidentally discovered them in 1942 while extracting peat from Brøns Mose on Zealand.

These helmets show how Bronze Age craftspeople in the Nordic region understood metalwork and created objects for ritual use. They reveal that people of this time had developed sophisticated knowledge about shaping metal into decorated ceremonial items.

The helmets are displayed at the National Museum of Denmark with explanatory panels describing their making and use. It helps to visit during daytime hours when lighting allows you to see the fine details of the bronze work clearly.

Scientific analysis found birch tar residue on the horns, used to attach and decorate them. This technique shows that craftspeople then already knew how to process natural materials to assemble bronze objects.