#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday #Celtic: `The Bratislava oppidum was involved in long-distance trade, as testified by a number of finds, such as Italic imports (bronze household ware, amphorae, Campana ceramics, terra sigillata), ores and minerals of foreign provenance (graphite from the territory of southern Bohemia, or Baltic amber) as well as rotary hand querns manufactured in distant lands.`
Source: Slovenské národné múzeum, Bratislava

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Believing their souls to be immortal, #Celts were fearless warriors, who challenged their enemies to duels. Fighting naked was seen as particularly bold. #Celtic warriors used spears of up to 2.5 m, long swords and large shields. High-ranking warriors also possessed metal helmets and chain mail.` #Celtic
Source: Natural History Museum Vienna

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `#Celtic chariots were drawn by two horses. As with the chariots, only parts of the bridle were sacrificed. The length of the two heavy chains suggests these were used to connect the horse to the coupling. Such chains were previously only known from Roman mules.`
Source: Natural History Museum Vienna

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `#Celts only sacrificed certain parts of their chariots. This was a „pars pro toto“-sacrifice, where a part represented the whole. The chariot parts found in the sacrificial ditches in Rosledorf, Lower Austria, show that several chariots had been dismantled there.` #Celtic
Source: Natural History Museum Vienna

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: #Celtic #IronAge folding knife
Source: Natural History Museum Vienna

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: Recognisably different types of two-link bridle bits were developed in #Celtic #Ireland
Source: British Museum

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: #Celtic Bronze bull figurine with iron dorsal stripe and a triangular head ornament from Býčí skála Cave, Czech Republic, 800-400 BC.

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: #Celtic Iron torc, Marson, British Museum, photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte

#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