The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds)
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CHAPTER FOUR THE ARMY, WEAPONS AND FIGHTING --..... -- J.N. G. and w.P. Ritchie INTRODUCTION C eremonial uniform and weaponry to ...
Chapter Four - illustrations of weapons at consistent sizes, has shown the development of swords, spears and shields from the ...
The Army, Weapons and Fighting - Figure 4.1 Gaulish chieftains, as evoked in nineteenth-century France. 39 ...
Chapter Four - yoke and harness rested. The body of a warrior had been laid on the floor of the chariot with the legs on eithe ...
The Army, Weapons and Fighting - Figure 4.2 La Gorge Meillet, Marne; excavated in 1876. (Fourdringier 1878 .) 41 ...
Chapter Four - The evidence from many excavations of chariot burials, coupled with that from depictions on coins and notably o ...
The Army, Weapons and Fighting - CELTIC HELMETS At the Gorge Meillet and at Diirrnberg Grave 44/2, the early La Tene chieftain w ...
Chapter Four - The flamboyant helmets of the first phases of La Tene are well known, but the practical weapons of Late La Tene ...
Figure 4.3 The warrior panoply of burial 169, Novo mesto, Slovenia. (Drawn by Andre Rapin.) 45 ...
Chapter Four - and infantry. At Cannae there was none of the usual advance and withdrawal: as soon as the two forces met they ...
The Army, Weapons and Fighting - world and the large numbers of weapons discovered in watery circumstances make this an import ...
Chapter Four - use of the materials at their disposal, iron and wood primarily. Such work can be illustrated in typological st ...
The Army, Weapons and Fighting - from La Tene I, but many are known from La Tene II both from burials and from votive depositi ...
Chapter Four - Figure 4.4 Warrior burial, Rungis, Val-de-Marne. (Drawn by Andre Rapin.) ...
The Army, Weapons and Fighting - disadvantage because they might be pierced or even pinned together by spears and thus become ...
Chapter Four - SLINGS The use of slings is attested from southern Britain, Brittany, and for example at Ie Puy du Tour (Correze) ...
The Army, Weapons and Fighting - emphasis on individual effort, but if the attack failed, it became clear that the Celts lacke ...
Chapter Four - altar from Nimes, both in southern France, as well as on the Gundestrup Cauldron; a few fragments have survived ...
The Army, Weapons and Fighting - Marcellus killed Britomarus, the Insubrian leader, at Clastidium (222 Be). It is told that in ...
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