Garam Éva szerk.: Between East and West - History of the peoples living in hungarian lands (Guide to the Archaeological Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum; Budapest, 2005)

HALL 5 - The Celts (450 B.C.-turn of the millennium) (Miklós Szabó)

54. Gold tore from Hercegmárok. Earlier 3rd century B.C. creations of Celtic art. Weapons bearing designs in the Hungarian Sword Style have also been found in Champagne and Picardy in France; the ornamental repertoire of the slightly later Swiss and Irish Sword Style was conceived in a somewhat differing spirit. 1 5. THE PLASTIC STYLE IN CELTIC ART Known for its three-dimensional Baroque flamboyance, the Plastic Style in jewellery decoration emerged more or less simultaneously with the sword styles. The gold tore from Hercegmárok, probably worn by a Celtic warrior, was part of a jewellery assemblage whose best parallels can be quoted from the Tolosa area (Fig. 54). It seems likely that the distribution of certain artefact types can be associated with the migrations following the aborted Balkanic invasion - in this case, with the migration of the Tectosages tribe. Another outstanding creation of Celtic figurai art, the bronze boar statuette found at Báta, had originally crowned a helmet or a military standard (Fig. 55). Other fine pieces include the