Celts: History and Civilization by Venceslas Kruta is basically a photo album about celtic art...
I don't fully understand what you are referring to by concentric circles, I've seen mistletoe or S motifs, but circles I'm lost sorry...
Celts: History and Civilization by Venceslas Kruta is basically a photo album about celtic art...
I don't fully understand what you are referring to by concentric circles, I've seen mistletoe or S motifs, but circles I'm lost sorry...
I already have Kruta's book and athough it does have a few photographs of the type of pattern I am looking for I would still like a few more examples. Perhaps I am being a bit cryptic by using the phrase concentric circles, roundels would be another way of decribing these patterns.
Here are the shields from three EB units which have the sort of pattern I mean, circles within circles:
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ah so thats what Concentric Circles means ... circles within circles![]()
From Olaf the Great
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I've had a quick scan through what books I have, and haven't been able to find anything that closely matches what you're talking about.
Plenty of La Tene designs that have concentric circles but not on their own, rather as part of a more complex design.
Of course, the EB team have access to material I don't and it's such a simple design that I would expect it to turn up everywhere.
The clearest examples that I did find were in fact Germanic/Nordic. A beautiful spearhead found at Vimose in Denmark (5th century AD) on p16 of my copy of Seamus Hearney's translation of Beowulf. (can't find a google picture sorry) has concentric circles inlaid with silver on the black iron of the spear blades.
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Does anyone know which team members are responsible for the Gallic factions? I know oudysseos is the man to ask for the Britons.
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Should be Power2the1 I think...
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