Research Project

CELTIC GOLD: Fine metal work in the Western La Tène culture

Summary

The German-French research project is dedicated to the archaeological and archaeometric study of Latène gold objects with a focus on the area of the Western Latène Culture in the region of present-day France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Channel Islands, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

The CELTIC GOLD project is characterised by interdisciplinary research in the field of precious metal objects of the Iron Age and follows on seamlessly from the results of a previous ANR/DFG project "Rethinking earliest Celtic gold" (2012-2015). Both projects combine archaeological, technological and metallurgical aspects in order to shed light on Celtic art and craft from all sides. Within the project, gold objects of the later Iron Age will be analysed with regard to their chemical composition, technologically examined and stylistically compared in order to gain information about the extraction, processing, use and final function of gold objects in graves and hoards. The aim is to understand the development of the art of the goldsmith and its significance for social, economic and cultural contacts during the Iron Age.

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Contact

Prof. Dr. Roland Schwab
+49 6131 8885-0
Kontakt
Dr. Martin Schönfelder
+49 6131 8885-0
Kontakt

Project Period

01.2017 - 12.2023

  • Armbruster B., Schwab, R. 2019, Kelten. Krieger mit Goldschmuck. Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 8, 72-77.
  • Milcent P.-Y., Nordez, M., Armbruster, B., Schwab, R., Blet-Lemarquand, M., Fürst, S., Lockhoff, N., Nieto-Pelletier S., Olivier, L., Schönfelder, M., Sievers, S. 2019, Le projet franco-allemand »Celtic Gold«: présentation et premiers résultats, Bulletin / Association Française pour l'Etude de l'Âge du Fer, 37, 21-24.
  • Nordez, M., Armbruster, B., Blet-Lemarquand, M., Milcent, P.-Y., Nieto-Pelletier, N. Olivier, L., 2019, L'or des Gaulois, Archéologia, 579, 36-45.
  • Fürst, S., Lockhoff, N., Armbruster, B., Schwab, R., Schönfelder, M. 2021, Goldohrringe revisited. Neues zu kleinen frühlatènezeitlichen Goldringen aus Hessen, hessenARCHÄOLOGIE: Jahrbuch für Archäologie und Paläontologie in Hessen 2020, 115-119.
  • Armbruster, B., Nordez, M., Blet-Lemarquand, M., Fürst, S., Lockhoff, N., Milcent, P.-Y., Nieto-Pelletier, S., Schönfelder, M., Schwab, R. 2021, Celtic gold torcs - An interdisciplinary and diachronic perspective, in B. Török, A. Giumlia-Mair (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference „Archaeometallurgy in Europe”, 19-21 June 2019 Miskolc, Hungary, Monographies Instrumentum 73, Drémil-Lafage, 417-432.
  • Armbruster, B., Fürst, S., Lockhoff, N., Martin, Th., Numrich, M., Schwab, R. 2020, Keltisches Gold unter der Lupe – Golduntersuchungen im Saarbrücker Museum für Vor – und Frühgeschichte im Rahmen des Projektes Celtic Gold – Goldschmiedekunst in der Westlichen Latènekultur, Denkmalpflege im Saarland. Jahresbericht 2019, 88-98.
  • Lebrun M., Doyen J.-M., Hanotte A., Van Aeetvelde Ch., Coll. Armbruster B., Gratuze B., Lehnebach C., Nordez M., Petite Y., Picavet P., Sillon Ch., Vatteoni S. 2020, L’enclos cultuel laténien des « Jardins familiaux » à Sin-le-Noble (Nord, France) : dépôts mixtes de monnaies d’or et d’orfèvrerie celtique, The Journal of Archæological Numismatics, 10, 51-141.
  • Creemers, G., Nordez, M., Armbruster, B., Blet-Lemarquand, M., Nieto-Pelletier, S., Cheuton, A. 2021, Het goud van Beringen (Limburg, België): nieuw onderzoek op het depot van munten en sieraden uit de tweede eeuw v. Chr., LUNULA. Archaeologia protohistorica, 24, 171-178.
  • Nordez, M., Armbruster, B., Blet-Lemarquand, M. 2021 - Nouvelle étude du « pendentif » en or de Paule. In Menez, Y. dir. –Une résidence de la noblesse gauloise. Le Camp de Saint-Symphorien à Paule (Côtes-d’Armor), Paris, Documents d’Archéologie française, 112, 401-402.
  • Fürst, S., Schönfelder, M., Armbruster, B. 2021, Neues zum sog. Trinkhornbeschlag von Bad Dürkheim. Zu Goldblecharbeiten der Frühlatènezeit, Germania, 99, 57-106.
  • Fürst, S., Schönfelder, M., Lockhoff, N. 2022, Goldobjekte und Goldgruppen - Untersuchungen und Analysen zum latènezeitlichen Goldfingerring von Nackenheim, Lkr. Mainz-Bingen, Prähistorische Zeitschrift 97(1), 220-238.

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