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Rare Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard found

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The History Blog has more :

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75071

I look forward to the "musicologists" getting to grips with this carnyx and figuring out improvements to the reproductions they make.

I look forward to it being cleaned up and historians noticing it has a copy of the Unix v3 source code engraved on it.

> used by Celtic tribes ... to intimidate their enemies

Hmmm. I need to get me one of those!

Imagine being a Roman legionnaire walking in a column through a strange forest when out from the trees you hear...

https://youtu.be/EOR7VKcSb9k?si=odGkhfl8xHEPKBiv

"Oh, here comes my promotion to a centurion!"

Jokes aside, the Roman legions were so insanely good at fighting and military logistics that the defeats they suffered are still remembered today - precisely because they were so few.

After the Punic wars, the only peer competitor left was the Parthians/Persians. Everyone else got a few lucky hits at best, if they could exploit some major mistake (full respect to Arminius in the Teutoburg Forest, that is how it is done, but not every commander was as heedless as Varus).

Love how Brit archaeologists can barely stomach using the C word (Celtic), for political reasons, and have to use the phrase "Iron Age" instead. Imagine if they treated the Romans like this, then they would have to refer to Roman Britain continually as "the Classical Period" or "Classical Britain". (Never mind that the Romans themselves were an Iron Age people.)

Being the BBC, they also have to note all the CBEs that certain individuals have. Got to honour that Royal Charter.

This is my first time hearing the British don't like saying Celtic. (I'm from the U.S.) There must be some history there?

As someone born, raised, and currently living in the UK, this is the first time I've heard of this. It's literally never come up or been an issue anywhere in the past 50 years I've been alive, and I've lived all over these isles. A bizarre OP.

It has been remarked upon a lot in Wales and Ireland in articles. Not bizarre at all.

Sounds like rubbish to me. What "political reasons" do you mean? Don't be shy.

Well, presumably the Celts did come across in small boats? But so did the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Scots... ;-)

Because the term "Celtic" is a) politicised and b) associated with New Age stuff.

Ironically, the Celtic tribe referred to were the Ancient Britons.

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