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==Artifacts== {{See also category|Celtic art}}[[File:London - British Museum - 2453.jpg|thumb|266x266px|Detail of the [[Battersea Shield]], [[British Iron Age|Britain]], c. 350–50 BC]] Some outstanding La Tène artifacts are: *[[Mšecké Žehrovice Head]], a stone head from the modern [[Czech Republic]] *A life-sized sculpture of a warrior that stood above the [[Glauberg]] burials *Chariot burial found at [[La Gorge Meillet]] ([[St-Germain-en-Laye]]: [[Musée des Antiquités Nationales]]) *[[Basse Yutz Flagons]] 5th century *[[Agris Helmet]], with gold covering, c. 350 *[[Waldalgesheim chariot burial]], [[Bad Kreuznach]], [[Germany]], late 4th century BCE, [[Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn]]; the "Waldalgesheim phase/style" of the art takes its name from the jewellery found here. *A gold-and-bronze model of an oak tree (3rd century BCE) found at the [[Oppidum of Manching]]. *Sculptures from [[Roquepertuse]], a sanctuary in the south of France *The silver [[Gundestrup cauldron]] (2nd or 1st century BCE), found ritually broken in a peat bog near Gundestrup, [[Denmark]], but probably made near the [[Black Sea]], perhaps in [[Thrace]]. ([[National Museum of Denmark]], [[Copenhagen]]) *[[Battersea Shield]] (350–50 BCE), found in London in the [[River Thames|Thames]], made of bronze with red [[Vitreous enamel|enamel]]. ([[British Museum]], London) *[[Waterloo Helmet]], 150–50 BCE, Thames *"[[Witham Shield]]" (4th century BCE). ([[British Museum]], London) <ref>[https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/t/the_witham_shield.aspx British Museum – The Witham Shield<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103180615/http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/t/the_witham_shield.aspx |date=3 November 2015 }}</ref> *[[Torrs Pony-cap and Horns]], from Scotland *[[Cordoba Treasure]] *[[Turoe stone]] in [[Galway]] and [[Killycluggin Stone]] in Cavan [[Ireland]] *[[Great Torc from Snettisham]], 100–75 BCE, gold, the most elaborate of the British style of [[torc]]s *[[Meyrick Helmet]], post-conquest Roman helmet shape, with La Tène decoration *[[Noric steel]] <gallery widths="130" heights="130" perrow="8"> File:Scissors Oppidum Manching.jpg|Scissors, found at [[Oppidum of Manching]] File:KMH - Schnabelkanne aus Grab 112 unterhalb der Hexenwand am Nordhang des Mosersteins am Dürnberg (1).jpg|Celtic flagon File:Phalère 06007.JPG|Phallerum File:Vor und Fruehgeschichte (89).jpg|Gold armlets from [[Saarland]] File:Hallein, Keltenmuseum, 03.jpg|Bronze flask from the salt mines at [[Dürrnberg]] File:KMM - Bemalte Keramik.jpg|Mass-produced pottery from [[Oppidum of Manching|Manching]] File:British Museum - Room 50 (21045342106).jpg|Chariot mounts from [[Somme-Bionne]] File:MAN - Bracelet gaulois a.jpg|Bronze bracelet, France File:Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin 001.jpg|Helmet made of iron, bronze, and coral File:Barde à la lyre.jpg|Statue of a [[bard]] with a Gallic lyre, found at the Paula Fortress File:Landesmuseum Württemberg, Kelten 019.1.jpg|Gold-plated decorative disc made of iron and bronze File:Musée de Bretagne Expo Celtique - Figure d'un aristocrate gaulois Morandais 20220917-02.jpg|Figure of a Gallic aristocrat with a [[torc]], from [[Trémuson]], France File:Villeneuve d'Ascq Eté2016 Asnapio poignards gaulois.jpg|Gallic daggers File:Musée de Bretagne Expo Celtique - Vase de Saint-Pol 20220917-01.jpg|[[Saint-Pol-de-Léon]] Vase, (a [[cinerary urn]]) File:KMM - Hirsch.jpg|Deer statue found in [[Salzburg]] File:Silver torque.jpg|Silver torque </gallery>
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