Celtic shield Carew, 3rd - 2nd cen B.C.

This Celtic shield can be painted individually. With an individually painted shield you will gain visibility and importance on the battlefield. Particularly suitable are water-soluble colors because these colors seep into the rawhide and do not peel off. Alcohol-stain can be used for larger areas, after which the leather texture remains visible. For lines, symbols or other details you can use any water-based paint, acrylic is also acceptable. You can hardly make any technological mistake. Important is to apply the color in thin layers, otherwise the painting can peel off later. Before you start painting, rub the rawhide carefully so that it is dry and grease-free. Grease residues from previous processing may be left on the rawhide. More information...

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Celtic shield Carew

  • Used materials: wood with raw leather overstuff
  • Size approx. 110 x 53cm
  • Thickness of the wood board is approx. 13mm
  • Weight approx. 6 kg

Origin of the original: 3rd - 2nd cen B.C.

Celts  is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic language. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the modern descendants of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture.

The historical Celts were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age Europe. Proto-Celtic culture formed in the Early Iron Age (1200 BC-400 AD) in Central Europe (Hallstatt period, named for the site in present-day Austria). By the later Iron Age (La Tène period), Celts had expanded over a wide range of lands: as far west as Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula, as far east as Galatia (central Anatolia), and as far north as Scotland.

The earliest direct attestation of a Celtic language are the Lepontic inscriptions, beginning from the 6th century BC. Continental Celtic languages are attested only in inscriptions and place-names. Insular Celtic is attested from about the fourth century AD in ogham inscriptions. Literary tradition begins with Old Irish from about the eighth century. Coherent texts of Early Irish literature, such as the Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), survive in 12th century recensions.

By the early first millennium AD, following the expansion of the Roman Empire and the Great Migrations (Migration Period) of Germanic peoples, Celtic culture had become restricted to the British Isles (Insular Celtic), and the Continental Celtic languages ceased to be widely used by the sixth century. "Celtic Europe" today refers to the lands surrounding the Irish Sea, as well as Cornwall and Brittany on either side of the English Channel. Galicia (NW Spain), Northern and Central Portugal (together with Galicia, part of ancient Gallacea) and Asturias (Northern Spain) are also clearly seen as Celtic lands, but without a surviving Celtic language. Source: Wikipedia

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