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    The Battersea Shield is one of the most significant pieces of ancient Celtic art found in Britain. It is a sheet bronze covering of a (now vanished) wooden...
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  • Battersea Shield is a 2004 EP by The Orb and Meat Beat Manifesto. It was sold in an embossed tin based on the design of the Battersea Shield, instead of...
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    Ballistic shield Battersea Shield Buckler Escutcheon (heraldic shield) Glagwa Heater shield Kite shield Nguni shield Pavise Qauata Riot shield Roromaraugi...
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    shields, as well as other Iron Age shields that have been found in rivers, such as the Battersea Shield and the Witham Shield, were votive offerings to the...
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  • England. First artifacts of La Tène culture at La Tène, Switzerland. Battersea Shield in the River Thames. William Wilde begins publication of a classified...
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    River Thames in west London, connecting Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south bank, and split between the City of Westminster, the London...
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  • The shield is comparable with other shields found in Britain dating from the same period, such as the Chertsey Shield and the Battersea Shield which...
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    Battersea was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in the County of London, England. In 1965, the borough was abolished and its area combined with...
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    Black Sea, perhaps in Thrace. (National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen) Battersea Shield (350–50 BCE), found in London in the Thames, made of bronze with red...
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    ritual pre-Christian (c. 350–50 BCE) shield found in the River Thames near Battersea Bridge (hence "Battersea Shield") is embossed with 27 swastikas in...
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    British warriors". American reenactor Canterbury helmet Battersea shield Wandsworth Shield Witham Shield "Horned helmet". British Museum. Retrieved 15 September...
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    The Battersea Shield is one of the most significant pieces of ancient Celtic art found in Britain....
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    Pryor, Britain BC, 2003 Barry Cunliffe, The Ancient Celts, 1997 "The Battersea Shield". British Museum. "Book 5, chapter 24". The Library of History of Diodorus...
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    The Battersea Shield, a ceremonial bronze shield dated 3rd–1st century BC, is an example of La Tène Celtic art from Britain....
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    became increasingly more precious and labour-intensive, for example the Battersea Shield found at an ancient crossing point of the Thames, or the Gundestrup...
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    The Battersea Shield, a ceremonial bronze shield dated 3rd–1st century BC, is an example of La Tène Celtic art from Britain...
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    bowl. Side detail Ring handle Bronze Age Britain British Iron Age The Battersea Shield, found nearby a few years earlier A group of 17 cauldrons dated to...
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    places on the Battersea Shield (c.350–50 BC), probably as an imitation of the red Mediterranean coral, which is used on the Witham Shield (400–300 BC)...
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    finds in the Thames, especially the Battersea Shield (Chelsea Bridge, perhaps 4th-century BC) and the Wandsworth Shield (perhaps 1st-century BC), both assumed...
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    the technique, seen as highlights on the relief decoration of the Battersea Shield and other pieces. However this was technically not true enamel in the...
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    2013. "Komplott [12" Vinyl]". Amazon UK. Retrieved 27 June 2013. "Battersea Shield – Meat Beat Manifesto, The Orb". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 June 2013....
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    archaeologists millennia later. Some of these, like the Battersea Shield, Wandsworth Shield and the Waterloo Helmet, would have been prestige goods that...
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    St Mary's Church, Battersea, is the oldest of the churches in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth, in the inner south-west of the UK's capital...
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    shapes and wine-dark stones ... See also: Battersea Shield History ...although it is now thought that the shield was a votive offering... See also: Gundestrup...
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  • around 500 BC German La Tène settlement reconstructed Detail of the Battersea Shield from London The 'Celtic' culture had expanded to the group of islands...
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    Ukraine, 4th century BC Geto-Dacian gold helmet, Romania, c. 400 BC Battersea Shield, Britain, c.350–50 BC Broch of Mousa, Scotland, c. 300-100 BC Lady...
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    The Battersea Shield, c. 350–50 BC...
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    developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs decorated with intricate patterns...
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  • chariot Chemical analysis of skeletons from Iron Age Somerset Replica of Battersea Shield Penycloddiau hillfort Bone analysis of skeletons from Iron Age Somerset...
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    turn (4th Baronet). In 1716 the latter was created Baron St John, of Battersea in the County of Surrey, and Viscount St John, with remainder to his second...
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