#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: Hammer, tongs, file and spring scissors from a blacksmith’s grave
Source: MAMUZ Mistelbach, Lower Austria

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: Remains of a mail shirt or hauberk from Roseldorf, Lower Austria; #Celtic
Source: NHM Vienna

#FindsFriday: Golden bracelet and finger ring from a lavish tomb, 5th cent. BCE, found in Rodenbach, Germany; #Celtic
Source: MAMUZ Mistelbach, Lower Austria

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Bronze belt chain from Raggendorf, Lower Austria, 3rd century BC
Source: MAMUZ Mistelbach, Lower Austria

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: The „Druid Crown“ from Roseldorf, Lower Austria, is the only known example of a ceremonial headdress found outside England or Ireland that was made of iron. Despite the iron material of this Roseldorf specimen, it should by no means be regarded as inferior; rather, the deliberate choice of iron as the material for this cult object could have been an honour for the wearer, as iron was a highly symbolic material.
Source: NHM Vienna

These quartz artifacts were collected in the gridded surface survey at Palavoy, Karnataka, India in 2003. I classified them and learnt a lot of their bipolar knapping. #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday: `In ancient #Celtic astronomy, the primary symbol was an X or sun wheel and its venerated rendition was an interconnected X design, which also represented the sun’s ongoing journey, considered sacred.
Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion-guest-authors/research-decodes-ancient-celtic-astronomy-symbols-and-links-them-jungian-020756

#FindsFriday: `Some of the primary symbols for the Sun in ancient #Celtic times were an X or a four-spoked wheel featured on bronze axes, swords, coins, urns, pottery and jewelry since Neolithic Europe. “Hallstatt Iron Age sheet-bronze vessels were decorated with repousse crosses and solar wheels,” states Dr. Green.
The X symbol was no doubt a significant astronomical representation for thousands of years; perhaps one of the most powerful ideograms valued by the Celts, which explains the X motif on our artifacts. The X artifacts range from 62 AD to 400 BC.`
Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion-guest-authors/research-decodes-ancient-celtic-astronomy-symbols-and-links-them-jungian-020756

#FolkyFriday #FindsFriday: `Dr. Melissa Carver, specialized in Metaphysics, stated of the interconnected X discovery that “Ancient #Celtic society for thousands of years used symbols that included the X pattern representing archetypes that stay with us today surfacing in the form of our architecture, religion, and political trademarks, although society is basically uninformed of their meaning or presence”.`
Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion-guest-authors/research-decodes-ancient-celtic-astronomy-symbols-and-links-them-jungian-020756

#FolkyFriday #FindsFriday: `According to Dr. Miranda J. Green in her book, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, the sun was significantly meaningful to the ancient #Celts. She states that “One of the most important venerated natural phenomena was the sun, seen as a life giver, promoter of fertility and healing” and that “coins were struck with sun symbols associated with the horse”.`
Source: https://www.ancient-origins.net/opinion-guest-authors/research-decodes-ancient-celtic-astronomy-symbols-and-links-them-jungian-020756

‘Buddo’ - a rare representation of a human figure from the British Neolithic, dating to around 2900-2400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae in the mid-C19th, it was re-discovered amongst the archaeological collections at Stromness Museum in 2016. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

One of my favourite exhibits in the British Museum. I am sad if it goes, but if they want it back... #FindsFriday

How does something so fragile survive around 4000 years in the field. Years of ploughing, harrowing, drilling, and at this farm power harrows. Everthing made to break up the ground for next years crop.

For #FindsFriday, A barbed and tanged arrowhead, Neolithic to Bronze Age.

Suffolk Detectorist @SDetectorist

#FindsFriday: Finds from the women's grave 15, brooch from around 385 BC, at the time of the Celtic attack on Rome, found at Streitberg
Source: #Celtic-Romans-Museum in Manching, Bavaria

#FindsFriday: Finds from the woman's grave 15, Langengeisling, 4th century BC
Source: #Celtic-Romans-Museum in Manching, Bavaria

#FindsFriday: `Iron helmet with life-size bronze bird from a #Celtic cremation grave in Ciumeşti in north-western Romania. This copy was created for the special exhibition ‘Rome's Unknown Border’ (2012/2013).
The sight of the warrior must have been impressive! He wore an iron helmet with cheek flaps, on which a life-size bronze bird was enthroned, probably a raven or bird of prey. With every step or gallop of the warrior, the bird flapped its movable wings. The animal's eyes seemed to glow – they were once made of ivory and red enamel.
The man was armed with a lance. He was protected by greaves and a chain mail shirt with magnificent decorative discs. The warrior wore a belt chain over this.
The equipment is extraordinary: the helmet remains unique to this day, and the chain mail is one of the earliest examples ever discovered. The greaves are exclusive, custom-made items from Greece. For them to fit perfectly, the warrior himself must have been there.
Anyone who could afford such possessions was of high social standing. He was probably a
military leader or chieftain who commanded a group of Celtic mercenaries in the eastern Mediterranean.
His grave belonged to a Celtic cemetery dating from around 250-200 BC, where a total of 32 people were buried.`
Source: #Celtic-Romans-Museum in Manching, Bavaria

#FindsFriday #Celtic: Skull trophy with trepanation, found at the east gate of Manching, 2.cent. BC
Source: #Celtic-Romans-Museum in Manching, Bavaria

Finds from a Roman town house in the Jewry Wall Roman Experience in Leicester. #FindsFriday

Gilded disc brooches from the Galloway Hoard. Buried at the beginning of the 10th century, the hoard was discovered by a metal-detectorist in 2014 at Balmaghie in Kirkcudbrightshire. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: Dagger with scabbard, 5th century BC; bronze, iron, coral; Dürrnberg
Source: Museum of the Celts Hallein