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 ...

Archaeologists discovered a wooden Celtic burial chamber inside a southern Germany burial mound. Dated to between 620 and 450 ...

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 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 ...

The discovery is exceptional due to the rarity of finding well-preserved wooden burial chambers from the Celtic period. Under normal conditions, buried wood typically survives for a few years to ...

A wood and leather shield dating to around A.D. 250 is one of only a few complete Roman scuta ever found. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.