Pre-Roman Briton of the interior, carrying shield, spear and battle axe.

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A Briton of the interior, carrying tarian (shield), fon-wayw (spear) and bwyell-arv (battle axe), from the pre-Roman era. In front of a Catterthun fortress. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821.

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