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Central European Urnfield Culture and Celtic La Tène: An Outline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

Ernst Sprockhoff
Ernst Sprockhoff
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Institute for Ur- und Frükgeschichte, University of Kiel
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When the Saxons from the mainland of Europe sailed up the Thames around the middle of the 5th century A.D. to lay the foundation-stone for the Anglo-Saxon Empire, they brought with them a signum sacre which has been handed down to us as the decoration of an urn from the burial-ground at Lackford in Suffolk. This consists of the figure of a horse, against which at the rear is a swastika (fig, 1, 1). Already at that time this sign had clearly a long history—a similar combination, closely related in style, is known to us from the first half of the last millennium B.C.; at that time it represented the Northern idea of the movement or journey of the ‘divine’ sun (fig. 1, 2), which idea has been brought down to us in plastic form from more than five hundred years earlier in the sun-chariot from Trundholm on Zealand.

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Iron Age
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 21 , July 1956 , pp. 257 - 281
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1956

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page 270 note 2 Jacobsthal, fig. 45–7, 55–9.

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page 277 note 4 ibid., fig. 265, 107.

page 277 note 5 ibid., fig. 266, 125 and 128; 265, 98.

page 277 note 6 ibid., fig. 266, 136.

page 277 note 7 ibid., fig. 268, 194.

page 277 note 8 ibid., fig. 268, 205.

page 277 note 9 ibid., fig. 268, 188–94; 270, 281, 289.

page 277 note 10 ibid., fig. 268, 196–99.

page 277 note 11 ibid., fig. 18, 8; 271, 322.

page 277 note 12 ibid., fig. 270, 283; 271, 294.

page 277 note 13 ibid., fig. 265, 120.

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