Carnyx in the excavated block with objects from an Iron Age hoard© Norfolk Museums Service
Posted on 01/15/2026 5:33:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv
EuroNews reports that a collection of Iron Age objects was unearthed during an archaeological investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in the East of England. A nearly complete Celtic battle trumpet, or carnyx, and parts of a second one were found in the hoard, in addition to a bronze boar head from a military standard and five shield bosses. "The carnyces and the boar-headed standard are styles well known on the continent and remind us that communities in Britain were well connected to a wider European world at the time," said Fraser Hunter of National Museums Scotland. To read about the mouthpiece of a Roman horn discovered at the site of Vindolanda in northern England, go to "Hadrian's Bugler."
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Carnyx in the excavated block with objects from an Iron Age hoard© Norfolk Museums Service
The Grant money allotted to go after this very dead trumpet was probably half a mil..
Very cool.
I wonder if they will be able to maybe replicate this and find out what the battle sound was really like.
No numerical date given - just Iron Age.
Wiki says Iron Age is 1,200 BC - 550 BC.
So, any time within a 650 year period?
Very surprising and totally kool.
Thanks.
If you look up the carnyx on You Tube, yes, it has been replicated and played. It can almost make a roar.
I thought this one was a littler one.
How neat to live in a place where every other road or construction project literally digs up something from the far past...
“an archaeological investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in the East of England” maybe half a mil pounds, since this stuff was found in England-so not an American project or American money. But are you not in favor of archaeological digs? Not interested in seeing the way people lived in the past?
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It's not like we don't know how they lived in the past. There's a bazillion books and displays available.
The Red and the Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeOMHRkz14U&list=RDIeOMHRkz14U&start_radio=1
And the STILL have not found anything significant on Oak Island!!!
Better they should pan for gold in Alaska...
I gather there were many soiled tunics on the bodies nailed to trees.
Love how they sound and the prices have come down over the last few years. I see one in my collection soon.
When Jimi Hendrix made those sounds we called it Rock n Roll.
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