An Iron Age battle trumpet has been discovered in Norfolk. The ancient musical instrument - called a carnyx - was found buried near other Iron Age items during an archaeological dig. The animal-headed ...
Archaeologists have announced their discovery of a metal hoard that contained an extremely rare example of a Celtic battle trumpet.
In 2012, two detectorists on Jersey, an island in the English Channel, made a discovery 30 years in the making. In a tightly packed clump of earth spanning 11 square feet, Reg Mead and Richard Miles ...
The trumpets were commonly used to inspire Celtic warriors, but Romans captured them as war trophies.
Fashioned in the shape of a snarling wild animal with "great big flappy ears," as Hinman described them, this bronze trumpet would have been mounted on a long mouthpiece and held high above warriors' ...
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans ...
Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," and one is decorated with tiny swastikas, the French National Institute of Preventive ...
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Britain before Rome, the Celtic tribes, druids, and warrior aristocracies of Iron Age Britain
Long before Roman legions arrived, Britain was a fragmented Celtic world of tribal kingdoms, hill forts, druidic religion, and constant warfare. Drawing on archaeology and later Roman accounts, this ...
Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests. Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women ...
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