Laid to rest with chariot and solid gold torc

[Brianmo]

Excavated recently by a team of archaeologists, the aristocratic tomb of Lavau (northeast France) dates to the beginning of the 5th century BCE, and contains an exceptional funerary collection: a Mediterranean bronze cauldron adorned with lion heads and Acheloos (a river deity), a figurative attic vase and assorted bronze vessels. Lying at the centre of the tomb, the archaeologists have uncovered an individual (north-south alignment with head to the south) who was laid to rest with a chariot.

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Close-up of the gold bracelets adorning the wrists of the individual buried in the tomb at Lavau. Image: © Denis Gliksman, Inrap

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