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The Battersea Shield is one of the most significant pieces of ancient Celtic art found in Britain. It is a sheet bronze covering of a (now vanished) wooden shield decorated in La Tène style. The shield is on display in the British Museum, and a replica is housed in the Museum of London.
Celtic art is associated with the peoples known as Celts; those who spoke the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to the modern period, as well as the art of ancient peoples whose language is uncertain, but have cultural and stylistic similarities with speakers of Celtic languages.
The Basse Yutz Flagons are a pair of Iron Age ceremonial drinking vessels that date from the mid 5th century BCE. [1] Since their discovery in ill-documented circumstances in the 1920s and their subsequent purchase by the British Museum, [2] they have been described as "great masterpieces" that "combine most of the key features of early Celtic Art". [3]
The Great Torc weighs slightly more than 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz) and is mostly made of gold alloyed with a small fraction of silver. [1] The torc was made in two ways: 64 [1] complex threads of metal were grouped into ropes and twisted around each other to create the crescent shaped necklace; the ends of the torc were cast in moulds with La Tène designs and welded onto the metal ropes to create the ...
Much less controversially, there are clear parallels between details of the figures and Iron Age Celtic artifacts excavated by archaeology. [32] Other details of the iconography clearly derive from the art of the ancient Near East, and there are intriguing parallels with ancient India and later Hindu deities and their stories
The Glauberg is a Celtic hillfort or oppidum in Hesse, Germany consisting of a fortified settlement and several burial mounds, "a princely seat of the late Hallstatt and early La Tène periods." [1] [2] Archaeological discoveries in the 1990s place the site among the most important early Celtic centres in Europe.
The Witham Shield is an example of the style of Celtic art known as La Tène.The bronze facings show evidence of having been reworked. The most noticeable feature is the central dome which would have been required for functional reasons as it allowed the owner to hold the shield close to its centre of gravity.
Margam Stones Museum is a small Victorian schoolhouse near Port Talbot, South Wales, which now provides a home for one of the most important collections of Celtic stone crosses in Britain. All originally found within the locality of Margam , and mostly assembled as a collection in the 19th century, they provide enduring testimony to a Welsh ...