From Gaul to Galloway: Early Celtic Art and Iron Age Connections

Abstract

• Galloway has produced remarkable treasures of early Celtic art such as the Torrs pony cap, found near Castle Douglas, but their stories are little known. Fraser Hunter, principal curator of prehistoric and Roman archaeology at National Museums Scotland, uses art and archaeology as witnesses to the area’s ancient past. How was it connected to Europe in the Iron Age and how might its people have been affected by the Roman Empire?