Past Times and Present Tensions

Bos Longifrons on  a British Celtic bucket mount. Image courtesy of Prof. Dorothy Verkerk, University of North Carolina . C ...

Click to enlarge Catalogue worksheet Ancient Greece Alexander III (The Great) 336-323 BC Pb uniface seal, 18 mm, 10.1 g...

J ohn Lennon said that life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Yes, life does that. The series of events that...

British boss fragment in   repoussé bronze. Early 2nd century B.C. In current coll. T his fragment is only 3.1 cm wide and is paper-thin...

O ne of the greatest joys in being a collector is finding a great bargain. More often than not, it will be something that lacks proper iden...

Shield handle mount, one of three  known, the other two being on the  Chertsey Shield in the British Museum. 4th to 3rd cent BC N...

A panorama of the view from where the sweetgrass braid was spotted. The image was mosaiced together from many shots with the distortions c...

T here are a few field archaeologists who think that they understand context, but who really do not, and who look down their noses at peopl...

I have collected early Celtic art for more than twenty-five years. It is a slow process. Throughout this blog, I will illustrate pieces ...

A nyone who knows me will be surprised to see this blog. I have long been critical of a number of blogs "The Usenet in a new suit"...