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Sculpture of a chainmail-armoured, torc-wearing Gallic warrior wielding a Celtic shield, although depicted in the Greco-Roman style, from Vachères, France, 1st century BC [11] Descriptions of battles against various Gallic tribes, heavily contrasts the popular picture of the wild and naked Celtic warrior.
The Kiltubbrid Shield is a Bronze Age wooden shield from Ireland, discovered during the 19th century in the townland of Kiltubbrid, County Leitrim.It is probably the only perfect article of its description found in Europe, [1] and dates from the Bronze Age, [2] although it has been thought it dates from late Celtic (La Tène) period.
Gaelic shields were usually round, with a spindle shaped boss, though later the regular iron boss models were introduced by the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans. A few shields were also oval in shape or square, but most of the native shields were small and round, like bucklers, to better enable agility and a quick escape.
The Moel Hebog shield (Welsh: Tarian Moel Hebog) or Moel Siabod shield [1] is a large copper-alloy Yetholm-type shield from Bronze Age Britain, found in Wales in 1784, and is now in the British Museum in London. It dates from 1300–1000 BC.
The thureos was probably originally an adapted form of a Celtic shield. Thracian and Illyrian infantry probably adopted the shield before the Greeks. However, it has been suggested that the thureos was brought to Greece after Pyrrhus of Epirus' campaigns in Italy, as his Oscan allies and Roman enemies used the scutum.
The word may derive from a conjectural proto-Celtic word *keternā, ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning a chain. [2] Kern was adopted into English as a term for a Gaelic soldier in medieval Ireland and as cateran, meaning 'Highland marauder', 'bandit'. The term ceithernach is also used in modern Irish for a chess pawn.
Caetra was the shield used by Iberian, Celtiberian, Gallaecian and Lusitanian warriors. The shield was circular shaped with a diameter between 30 cm to 90 cm. It was tied to the warrior's body with ropes or leather strips that passed over the shoulder and that gave great mobility to fight both on foot and on horseback.
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 .
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