A chance discovery of an ancient Celtic shield in a field in ... boss to protect its wooden handle. The outside of the shield had been scored and then painted in red chequerboard decoration.

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 ...

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 ...

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.