"In 1910, peat diggers found a gold-plated silver helmet in De Peel, containing coins, shoes, remains of expensive clothing, horse reins and pieces of leather. You can admire the restored helmet in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. After the great Peel fire in 1960, discussions about this archaeological find flared up again. Almost 100 years later (2007), archaeologists came to the conclusion that it was a deposition: an offering to the gods at the end of a military career. However ... descendants of the peat diggers and local stakeholders did not recognize themselves in their story of the discovery conditions and pointed to various faulty assumptions. They saw deposition theory as a fashionable explanation of what had happened. Leo Kluijtmans (called the 'seer of the Peel') and his son Huub, the author of this book, played a major role in the discussions about the finds. He describes the presumed route of the rider (s), is related to the find of the famous decorative disk of Helden and that of the Ring collar of Meijel, describes in detail what was found and how."--Google translate

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