The Torrs Horns and Torrs Pony-cap (once together known as the Torrs Chamfrein) are Iron Age bronze pieces now in the National Museum of Scotland, which...
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Waterloo Helmet, Torrs Pony-cap and Horns and various animal figures including boars, of uncertain function. The shield bosses, spurs and horse harness also...
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Castle Douglas (category Towns in Dumfries and Galloway)
Cotton Street derives its name. The Torrs Pony-cap and Horns is an Iron Age bronze horned cap for a pony found in Torrs Loch at Castle Douglas in 1812. It...
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examples of patterned objects and gold work. Evidence of the wider La Tène culture includes the Torrs Pony-cap and Horns. The Stirling torcs demonstrate...
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Celts. Examples include the Torrs Pony-cap and Horns (Scotland), Basse Yutz Flagons (France), Wandsworth Shield (England), and the Dunaverney flesh-hook...
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especially from Eastern Europe, had bird crests. The enigmatic Torrs Pony-cap and Horns from Scotland appears to be a horned champron to be worn by a horse...
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century BCE). (British Museum, London) Torrs Pony-cap and Horns, from Scotland Cordoba Treasure Turoe stone in Galway and Killycluggin Stone in Cavan Ireland...
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Abbotsford, Scottish Borders (category Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes)
especially connected with Scottish history, notably the Celtic Torrs Pony-cap and Horns and the Woodwrae Stone, all now in the Museum of Scotland. Scott...
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circumstances and the plundering of churches was an integral part of warfare and not a new vice learned with alacrity from the Vikings." The Torrs Pony-cap and Horns...
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especially of the engraving, is very close to that of the Torrs Pony-cap and Horns found in Scotland and now in the Museum of Scotland. Waterloo Helmet Cunliffe...
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National Museum of Scotland (redirect from Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art)
including the Hunterston Brooch Torrs Pony-cap and Horns Pictish stones, such as the Hilton of Cadboll Stone, Woodwrae Stone, and Monifieth Sculptured Stones...
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Scottish art (category Visual and material culture of Scotland)
in Lanarkshire and Kincardine. By the Iron Age, Scotland had been penetrated by the wider La Tène culture. The Torrs Pony-cap and Horns are perhaps the...
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culture. The Torrs Pony-cap and Horns are perhaps the most impressive of the relatively few finds of La Tène decoration from Scotland, and indicate links...
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28 April 2012. "Horns of bronze". Museum of Scotland. Retrieved 27 June 2011. Sandars (1968) pp. 260–261 "AD 200 – Valtos: brochs and wheelhouses" archaeology...
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adventures of Rob Roy as one of his themes. He secured for Scott the Torrs Pony-cap and Horns, important objects of the Iron Age, now in the National Museum...
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enigmatic Torrs pony-cap from Scotland appears to be a bronze chanfron from about the 2nd century BC, perhaps later fitted with the bronze horns found with...
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