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The old Irish ‘chariot’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter Harbison
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Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 179 , September 1971 , pp. 171 - 177
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1971

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Dr Peter Harbison, Archaeology Officer in Bord Fáilte Éireann (The Irish Tourist Board) in Dublin, whose ‘Guide to the national monuments of Ireland’ was reviewed recently in these pages (1970, 77), here discusses the form and detail of the old Irish ‘chariot’ in relation to our knowledge of Celtic chariots of the La Tène period on the continent, and links his discussion to the problem of the celticization of Ireland.

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