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Article: Kentucky Horse Park lands rare find from Celtic grave.
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- January 21, 2003
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Byline: Linda B. Blackford
LEXINGTON, Ky. _ It was uncovered by accident, as construction workers dug outside the small Yorkshire, England, village of Wetwang in 2001.
There, in the shallow barrow scattered around the skeleton of a Celtic noblewoman, lay the remains of a chariot.
While Celtic graves are in themselves extremely rare, archeologists at the site soon realized the iron and coral-embedded bronze pieces, along with perfect imprints of the wooden body of the carriage, yielded one of the earliest chariots ever found, from around 300 B.C.
With exact measurements, researchers could painstakingly replicate the ancient mode of ...