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Celtic Bronze Fastener
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Celtic Bronze Fastener

A Celtic bronze fastener, 7th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)
Celtic Torc, Vix Burial
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Celtic Torc, Vix Burial

A gold neck torc from the Celtic Vix burial, Châtillon-sur-Seine, in northeast France close to a fortified Celtic site or oppidum and in the vicinity of at least four more burials. Discovered undisturbed, the princely burial...
Celtic Pottery Vessels, Marne, France
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Celtic Pottery Vessels, Marne, France

Three Celtic pottery vessels from La Marne, France. They shows typical Celtic design features with their curvilinear shapes and decoration. 4th century BCE. (British Museum, London)
Celtic Heads Sculpture, Entremont
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Celtic Heads Sculpture, Entremont

A stone sculpture of human heads, the part of the body believed by the ancient Celts to hold the soul. From a sanctuary at the oppidum of Entremont, France. 2nd century BCE. (Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France)
Oppidum
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Oppidum - The Hilltop Fort of the Celts

Celtic hilltop forts, often called oppida (sing. oppidum), after the Latin name given to larger settlements by the Romans, were built across Europe during the 2nd and 1st century BCE. Surrounded by a fortification...
Celtic Burial Mound Reconstruction, Hallstatt
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Celtic Burial Mound Reconstruction, Hallstatt

A reconstruction of a Celtic burial mound from the Hallstatt culture of Austria and central Europe in the 1st millennium BCE. (German National Museum, Nuremberg)
Celtic Deity, Gundestrup Cauldron
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Celtic Deity, Gundestrup Cauldron

A detail of the Gundestrup cauldron, a gilded silver vessel showing imagery of Celtic-inspired gods. Likely 1st century BCE, produced in the Balkans but found in Denmark in 1891 CE. (National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen...
Reconstruction of the Celtic Hochdorf Burial Mound
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Reconstruction of the Celtic Hochdorf Burial Mound

A reconstruction of the Celtic Hochdorf burial mound located near Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. The burial within a wooden chamber of a single male dates to the second half of the 6th century...
Celtic Coin Showing Hercules
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Celtic Coin Showing Hercules

A Celtic coin from the Iron Age Balkans. Silver, 2nd-1st century BCE. The obverse shows Dionysos while the reverse shows a stylised Hercules holding a club and lion skin. (British Museum, London)
Celtic Turoe Stone
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Celtic Turoe Stone

The Celtic Turoe Stone, 1st century BCE. Covered in vegetal designs, the significance of the stone is not known but it likely had a sacred significance and probably once stood at a sacred site. Bullaun, County Galway, Ireland...
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