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The Venerable Bede, druidic tonsure and archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Natalie Venclová
Natalie Venclová*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Letenská 4, CZ-11801 Prague 1, Czech Republic. venclova@arup.cas.cz
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Dr Venclová is well known to readers of ANTIQUITY as the excavator of the site of Mšecké Žehrovice in Bohemia, find-place of the most famous example of Iron Age human representation. What she presents here is a provocative theory — that the Mšecké Žehrovice stone head represents a Celtic druid!

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Iron AgeEarly ChristianEuropedruidstonsure

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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 292 , June 2002, pp. 458 - 471
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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