CELTIC CULT WAGONS – BURIALS, DEPOSITIONS OR OFFERINGS

Thursday 29th January 2026 at Moesgaard, Denmark

9.30: Registration

10.00: Welcome by Anna Tjelldén

10.10: Introduction by Mads Holst, director of Moesgaard

10.25: Martin Schönfelder: Wagon graves in the La Tène world

11.10: BREAK

11.30: Anna Tjelldén: Fredbjerg wagon

11.50: Arne Jouttijärvi: Fredbjerg, metallurgic results

12.10: LUNCH (including time to visit celtic exhibition)

13.10: Fraser Hunter: Iron Age chariots in Northern Britain at the Iron Age/Roman transition

13.55: Tom Moore/Sophia Adams: Vestiges of vehicles in Late Iron Age Britain: the case of the Melsonby hoard

14.30: BREAK

14.50: Lars Grundvad: The ceremonial wagon from Fæsted - the find and the context

15.05: Bjarne Henning: The Giver wagon

15.25: Orla Madsen: Hedegård

15.45 Andrew Lamb: The Hallstatt wagon and the Atlantic fringe

15.55: BREAK

16.05: Károly Tankó and F. Zsófia Sörös: From Iron Fittings to Elite Symbolism: Celtic Pars pro Toto Chariot Burials in the Carpathian Basin

16.25: Aurel Rustoiu: Warrior identities: riders and chariots in late La Tène Dacia

16.45: Xenia Jensen: Burial, deposition or offerings?

17.05: End seminar

19.30: Conference dinner downtown Aarhus