3rd-1st century BC. A substantial bronze discoid weight with chamfered edge, high-relief image of a warrior in profile on horseback to the obverse; the horse with ropework crupper and bridle, pellet eye, segmented mane; the warrior mounted on the horse's back without a saddle, wearing tight-fitting garments, bearded with braided hair flowing from the back of the head towards the horse's rump; sword in scabbard suspended behind the warrior's right leg. See Megaw, R.& V. Celtic Art. From its Beginnings to the Book of Kells, London, 1989 for discussion. 430 grams, 86mm (3 1/4"). Property of a London collector; acquired on the London market, 1990s-2000s. The warrior's attitude and tight-fitting garment resemble those shown on the inner panel of the Gundestrup cauldron in the scene where a procession of advancing footsoldiers with shields supports a leaf-nearing branch above their heads, heading towards a cauldron in which a superhuman figure immerses one of their number head-first, beneath a quartet of horsemen heading away from the scene. Fine condition.