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The Celtic Turoe Stone, 1st century BCE. Covered in vegetal designs, the significance of the stone is not known but it likely had a sacred significance and probably once stood at a sacred site. Bullaun, County Galway, Ireland.

Seated figures and stone columns with niches for human heads or skulls from a Celtic religious site at Roquepertuse, France. 3rd century BCE. (Musée d'histoire, Marseille, France)

A Celtic bowl with embossed gold leaf decoration from the princely burial at Schwarzenbach, Rhineland, Germany. 5th century BCE. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Celtic belt buckle, 5th century BCE. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Germany.

One of the many wooden figures and other objects depicting Celtic figures or motifs in the woods surrounding Ailwee Caves, County Clare, Ireland.

An example of a Celtic coin known as a regenbogenschüsselchen of southern Germany and Bohemia. Electrum, 5th-1st century BCE.

A Celtic bronze fastener, 7th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)

Early Iron Age Celtic people copied Greek coins, often faithfully reproducing their designs and inscriptions. This suggests that Thracian die-engravers were illiterate, as legible Greek letters were gradually replaced by abstract patterns...

A Celtic coin from the Iron Age Balkans. Silver, 2nd-1st century BCE. The obverse shows Dionysos while the reverse shows a stylised Hercules holding a club and lion skin. (British Museum, London)

A Celtic penannular brooch from Burgos, Spain. Made prior to the 1st century CE (Iron Age). Made of a copper alloy. Diameter: 5 cm. (British Museum, London)