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Bronze model of a human head Iron Age, about 50-20 BC
From Welwyn, Hertfordshire, Britain . Where Celtic dice games where played (see Feb 2019).
'The whole landscape a manuscript
We had lost the skill to read,
A part of our past disinherited;
But fumbled, like a blind man,
Along the fingertips of instinct.'
John Montague-A Severed Head
A face or model from the past
This face image is 2000 years old. He is a mature man with hair combed back, clean-shaven except for a well-groomed moustache. Images of prehistoric Celtic Britons are very rare and in the Iron Age people were almost never shown as statues or carved as part of the decoration on objects. La Tène art styles were usually abstract and rarely showed images of people, animals or plants. Example : www.flickr.com/photos/nigelallinson/2325346120/
This pattern changed at the very end of the Iron Age in the south east of the England. Here, there are a few pictures of Iron Age men shown on coins or as decorations on wooden buckets/pails.
This is likley to be of the Catuvellauni tribe of Gaul who migrated to Britian :
The Catuvellauni were a group of Belgae peoples who are believed to have previously inhabited an area to the north-west of the river Seine. Eventually they were broken up into smaller groups by resurgent tribes and forced to become clients of the Senones.
The history of the Catuvellauni of Verlamion & Wheathampstead (now St Albans, Hertfordshire)
Founded around 15 BC Verlamion became the new tribal capital and royal seat of the Ancient British Iron Age tribe known as the Catuvellauni. The name Verlamion is British Celtic in origin and means ‘the settlement above the marshland”. It is unclear why the Catuvellaunian dynasty chose Verlamion as their new tribal centre, preferring this site to the already established trading centre slightly further north-east at Welwyn. The tribal name 'Catuvellauni' is a British Celtic name and roughly translates as; 'expert warriors or 'battle superiors'
This is one of three small bronze models of men's faces that were the decoration on a wooden bucket found in a Late Iron Age cremation burial. The grave probably belonged to someone of great importance and wealth, perhaps even a king or queen. The bucket would have looked similar to the one found in another Late Iron Age cremation burial at Aylesford, Kent. This also had men's faces on the handle mounts.
The grave was the burial of a king or queen similar to another royal grave at Welwyn Garden City. The grave also contained two bronze jugs and a bronze pan, similar to examples from the Aylesford burial. There were also two Roman silver cups, five Roman wine amphorae and many pots.
S. James and V. Rigby, Britain and the Celtic Iron Age (London, The British Museum Press, 1997)
I.M. Stead, Celtic art in Britain before the Romans (London, The British Museum Press, 1987, revised edition 1997)
The Catuvellauni War God
In the pre-Roman period the Catuvellauni of modern day Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, south west Cambridgeshire and parts of Essex, worshipped a Celtic warrior god, or god of victory. The deity is depicted on coins and brooches as a mounted warrior carrying either a carnyx (Celtic warhorn) or bearing a shield, or wearing armour. The tribal name of this local deity is unknown, but he may well have been Camulos the Celtic god of war - who was also the Trinovantes war god.
The Irish~Gaelic word for moustache, croimeal. This could be another influence from the ancient Scythians to the Celts as were the collecting of heads and the torc.
Bronze war trumpet with floral relief decoration of the flange on the bell. Irish, 1st Century BC - 2nd Century AD. National Museum. Dublin, Ireland. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier
Curgor Warhoof the Fauncor Chief
(Edit: Original was accidentally deleted and I am not happy with Flickr about it. This was my favorite figure and it got deleted because of the 1,000 picture limit cap).
The Fauncor are a race of beastial figures vaguely resembling men. They have the upper torsos of their human counterparts but the legs and horns of beasts. The Fauncor make up the bulk of the Brayherd army, and each Fauncor tribe has a chieftain. These chieftains are selected through single combat, so only the strongest and most vicious of the Fauncor can become chief. One such figure, Curgor Warhoof, has become so savage, cruel, and barbaric that he has seized the role of Warchief and commands all of the Fauncor race.
In Fauncor society, a figure is respected based on the number and size of his warhorns. The larger the warhorns, the more savagely cruel the warrior is. It is said that Curgor Warhoof has the most numerous and largest of warhorns; no other Fauncor dare cross his cruel path. Curgor stomps into battle wielding a crude great axe and a formidable club, bashing his enemies and swathing bloody paths through battle lines. His war bellow can be heard across an entire battlefield.
Bloodlust drips from Curgor Warhoof as he madly searches for his next enemy to kill. Men fear the day that such a savage and vicious beast seeks the battle fervor, and that day has come.
Contracted by Sega to create 8 Japanese-Themed items for a "The Shogun Update" for Team Fortress 2.
I get 25% of the sales of the Shogun items in the Mann Co. store! :D
Contracted by Sega to create 8 Japanese-Themed items for a "The Shogun Update" for Team Fortress 2.
I get 25% of the sales of the Shogun items in the Mann Co. store! :D
Contracted by Sega to create 8 Japanese-Themed items for a "The Shogun Update" for Team Fortress 2.
I get 25% of the sales of the Shogun items in the Mann Co. store! :D
Trolls et Légendes
Mons
More: redcathedral.blogspot.com/2022/04/event-trolls-et-legende...
A short video: clapperapp.com/video/jQ8oaljrByqpBgr7?is_invite=1&r=D...
Another minivideo: newsclapper.com/video/DywAzV9M1bOpkB9Z?r=Do9bQkBx6w
Superman / Heft-Reihe
> Superman / Füllhorn der Vernichtung!
art: Curt Swan, Murphy Anderson
> Batman / ...etwas Böses naht sich hier!
(reprint from Detective Comics #425 )
art: Irv Novick, Dick Giordano
Originalausgabe: Superman #257
(Superman: Superman battles the War-Horn!)
cover: Nick Cardy
EHAPA Verlag
(Stuttgart / Deutschland; 1966-1985)
ex libris MTP
Burgundian officer foot and mounted. Foot officer has head, helmet and besagews (circles) from the mounted set. The horses were converted to new poses by cutting one half in half, as shown here on Lead Adventure. Swiss warhorn horn player for Luzern. The horn came from Wargames Factory Ancient Germans.
While creating this, I had a #gameofthrones inspiration- 'Bran stood there praying to the godswood till evenfall came and went. When the ravens flew away, Bran hoped they'd return with letters from father. But father was gone. All that remained was Bran; pieces of himself. And at that moment he felt pain like never before and he awoke with a jolt, drenched in sweat..to Hodor shaking him and pointing out the window. The distant sound of a warhorn reminded Bran of the truth: he was powerless. He was broken'
End-blown and side-blown bronze horn. Irish, Iron Age (Halstatt), 900 BC - 500 BC. From Derrynane and Chute Hall, County Kerry. National Museum. Dublin, Ireland. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier