![]() Before 2004 this was the best surviving example, and generally copied in earlier reconstructions. The location and age of the Deskford Carnyx suggests the instrument had a peaceful, ceremonial use and was not used only in warfare. It was donated to Banff Museum, and is now on loan from Aberdeenshire Museums Service to the Museum of Scotland. Only the boar's head bell survives, also apparently placed as a ritual deposit. The only example from the British Isles is the Deskford Carnyx, found at the farm of Leitchestown, Deskford, Banffshire, Scotland in 1816. The Tintignac finds enabled some fragments found in northern Italy decades before to be identified in 2012 as coming from a carnyx. Four of the carnyces had boar's heads, the fifth appears to be a serpent-like monster they appear to represent a ritual deposit dating to soon after the Roman conquest of Gaul. Prior to this discovery, fragments of only five carnyces had been found, in modern-day Scotland, France, Germany, Romania and Switzerland. The deposit contained more than 500 fragments of metal objects, including seven carnyces, one of which was nearly complete. In 2004, archaeologists discovered a first-century-BC Gallic pit at Tintignac in Corrèze, France. The serpent head from Tintignac Archaeology ![]()
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