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 La Tène culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
La Tène metalwork is characterized by intricate spirals and interlace, on fine bronze vessels, helmets and shields, horse trappings and elite jewelry, especially the neck bracelets called torcs and elaborate clasps called fibulae.
In Vix, France, an elite woman of the 6th century BC was buried with a bronze cauldron made in Greece.
"Battersea Shield" (350–50 BC), found in the Thames, made of bronze with red enamel.
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 La Tène culture - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The original homeland of the La Tène style is debated; it lay in the area from the Marne in Eastern France, north of the Alps to the upper Danube.
Strettweg Cart (7th Century BC); found in southeast Austria (Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz, Austria), a four wheeled cart with a goddess, riders with axes and shields, attendants and stags.
Battersea Shield (1st century); found in the Thames; bronze with red enamel (Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen)
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 La Tène culture
Strettweg Cart (7th Century); found in southeast Austria (Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz, Austria), a four wheeled cart with a goddess, riders with axes and shields, attendants and stags.
Battersea Shield (1st century); found in the Thames River; bronze with red enamel (Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen)
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