No, its quite Gallic, really. The flanges to protect the ears and the neck guard are definately Gallic, however I got confused ealier becuase it doesn't have the embossed skull decoration, which it why I said Itallic, or course Itallic helmets came later with the cross-braces. As you say it doesn't matter, it definately is Roman.

So some Gallic smith in the Rhineland got lazy and didn't put the decoration on! I'm not really bothered and infact it does appear to be a relatively early type so you could say that all your legionaries have the latest kit! Which is just about possible, time wise.

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