# Rare Iron Age Celtic helmet discovered in northeastern Poland far from its homeland

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- Published: 2026-10-31T15:00:06+00:00
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Around 2,400 years ago, at Łysa Góra in Poland, a group of people took a bronze helmet, crushed it, broke it into pieces and threw it into a pit with iron adzes and a scythe. Such helmets are sometimes found in lavish graves of the Celtic warrior elite, from Champagne, France, to Dürrnberg, Austria.

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