... Celtic civilization. La Tène style can be described as "a highly [stylized] curvilinear art based mainly on classical vegetable and foliage motifs such as leafy palmette forms, vines, tendrils and lotus flowers together with spirals, S-scrolls, lyre and trumpet shapes". (Wallace, 2002) The Broighter boat is one of very few pieces of sculpture found from the La Tène period. It ... the eagle was the symbol of the sun and were the most feared on the battlefield. Eagle knights were afforded many rights and privileges that commoners were not and held a position almost in-line with nobility...

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