ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the UK were stunned after confirming that a Fifties Viking helmet was the first to ever be found in Britain.

That work not only confirms the historical consensus that Vikings never had horned helmets — it also explains how the mythical headdress landed on Viking heads.

This tapestry also contains one of the only known depictions of a horned Viking helmet.

The Yarm helmet, then, likely belonged to a Viking who had settled in the north of England sometime after the Norse invasions, which began in A.D. 793.

A Viking helmet unearthed in Yarm in the 1950s is the first to ever be found in Britain, according to new research. Found in Chapel Yard by workmen digging trenches for new sewerage pipes, the ...