Explore: Celtic Metalwork

upon Celtic metalwork proves nothing more than they were a favourite decorative motif, among several, and one just as popular among non-Celtic peoples

Youngs, Susan, ed. (1989). 'The Work of Angels', Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th–9th centuries AD. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 0-7141-0554-6

known as Celtic brooches or similar terms. They are the most significant objects in high-quality secular metalwork from early medieval Celtic art, or Insular

Celtic coinage was minted by the Celts from the late 4th century BC to the mid 1st century AD. Celtic coins were influenced by trade with and the supply

monastic movement of Celtic Christianity, or metalwork for the secular elite, and the period begins around 600 with the combining of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon

early Celtic art in a distinctly British Celtic style. It is the most spectacular object in the Snettisham Hoard of torcs and other metalwork found in

from known continental carnyces and that its "decoration is typical of metalwork in north-east Scotland at the time, where there was a flourishing tradition

Middle Ages in illuminated manuscripts, metalworking and sculpture. Celtic calendar. The oldest material Celtic calendar is the fragmented Gaulish Coligny

of the earliest Insular metalwork pieces to depict animals in the zoomorphic style. It is far larger than most other Celtic brooches: the hoop has a

Latin: Britanni, Welsh: Brythoniaid), also known as Celtic Britons or ancient Britons, were the Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the