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A pair of thin, embossed gold coverings, which decorated the shoes of the chieftain buried at Hochdorf around 530 BCE.
Bern Historical Museum, Switzerland.
The burial mound at Hochdorf is associated with the Hallstatt Culture and is located near the remains of a Celtic village which contained several farmsteads. The man interred in the Iron Age burial mound is believed to have been a Celtic "prince" or chieftain. The chieftain was about 40 years old when he died, and over 6 feet tall (unusually large for an Iron Age individual). He was wearing a birch hat, brightly coloured clothing, a gold torc, bracelet, and several amber beads. The grave goods also included a comb, a dagger, fishing hooks, arrows, and other tools made of bone, bronze, and antler.
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