The helmet provides neck protection via a projecting rim overlaid with a thin bronze covering plated with silver.

[1] The remaining portions of the helmet consist of three main parts: a face mask, a brow band, and ear and neck guards on either side.

[2] At the top and bottom of the brow band are beaded lines, between which five raised busts, three female and two male, are depicted.

[6] The helmet was discovered in a gravel bed on the south bank of the Waal, under a railway bridge and below the Dutch city Nijmegen.

[2] On 2 March 1915 James Curle, a Scottish archaeologist,[9][10] read a paper on the helmet to the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, which published the paper in its journal later that year;[11] the helmet was described as "recently discovered", and "a recent addition" to the collection of Roman antiquities of Gerard Marius Kam, also of Nijmegen.