As Mike Laycock reports for the York Press, researchers uncovered the Celtic ... faced shields were purely ceremonial, reflecting status, but not used in battle,” Ware says to Alex Wood of ...

Ancient Celtic burials were regarded with ... purely ceremonial and not intended for warfare. The shield also featured sturdy leather and wood fittings on the back which had rotted away and ...

In a story seemingly fit for Game of Thrones, an ornate Iron Age shield that was unearthed from a “warrior grave” is now being deemed “the most important British Celtic art object of the ...

An elaborate Iron Age shield found in an impressive 'warrior grave' in Yorkshire in 2017 is being hailed 'the most important British Celtic art object of the millennium'. Painstaking conservation ...

Archaeologists discovered a wooden Celtic burial chamber inside a southern Germany burial mound. Dated to between 620 and 450 B.C., these mounds were reserved for high-ranking individuals.

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered an impeccably preserved wooden burial chamber at the center of an enormous burial mound from the early Celtic period. The 2,600-year-old grave ...