Shield of Battersea

The Bouclier of Battersea is an element representative of the Celtic Art of island of Brittany, whose manufacture is dated from the Ier front century J. - C. or, at the latest, of the beginning of the Ier century a. J. - C. It was found in the the Thames with Battersea not far from London, in 1857.

Its reinforcement, in the beginning, was out of wood and leather to which the craftsmen Celtes applied and riveted a bronze coating. It is composed of five parts: the overall plate, the orle and three circles worked and connected to each other (those the top and of of the same bottom cuts, that of the center being much broader). It with the shape of a rectangle at the edges rounded and the curved lateral sides. Cabochons in red molten glass decorate the representation.

Its low dimensions (85 cm height) carry to believe that it is about an object of prestige, having belonged to notable, unless it is not about an object of worship, offered on a purely votive basis with a divinity.

It is exposed to the British Museum in London.

Sources

Venceslas Kruta, the Celts, history and dictionary , Robert Laffont, collection Books , Paris, 2000,
Maurice Meuleau, the Celts in Europe , Editions Ouest-France, Rennes, 2004,
the Celts , collective work, catalogs exposure of Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Éditions Fabbri Bompiani, Milan, 1991,

External bond

the shield of Battersea to British Museum

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