Waldalgesheim

Chariot burial of the La Tène Iron Age in Rhineland, Germany, depicting the 4th century BC decorative style of the same name. Funerary offerings included gold ornaments, bronze flagon, imported Italian bronze bucket, and bronze plaques with repoussé human figures. The native pieces (gold torcs, bracelets) are decorated in the Waldalgesheim curvilinear style of ornament based on tendril patterns. After c 350 BC metalwork decorated in this Waldalgesheim style made its appearance all over Celtic Europe from Britain to Romania and Bulgaria.

A chariot burial of the La Tene Iron Age in the Rhineland, western Germany. It contained the bodies of a man and a woman and many fine grave goods of both bronze and gold. Some of these objects were imports, for example a bronze bucket of Italian type, but most were of native manufacture. Many of the locally made objects, such as the gold tores (neck-rings) and bracelets, were decorated in a curvilinear style and the name Waldalgesheim has been given to the mature La Tene art style of the later 4th century bc. See also Celtic art.