From Expatica: France trumpets discovery of Gallic war trophies.
Posted on November 29, 2004 06:40 AM. Filed under: history & archaeology.French archaeologists said this week they had discovered an exceptional Gallic war treasure in the south of the country, including rare war trumpets and ornate helmets.
The some 470 objects, or fragments of objects, were found at the end of September during a dig at Naves, in the department of Correze in southern France, in a ditch hollowed out of a Gallic-Roman temple, they said.
"The exceptional character of this discovery lies mainly in the presence of five almost complete carnyx," Christophe Maniquet, an archaeologist at Inrap, France's national institute for Archaeological studies, said.
"They are Celtic war trumpets which were used to scare off the enemy, by confusing the battle," he said. [continue]