ABSTRACT
Research on the Belgae and their archaeological remains will always remain indebted to C. F. C. Hawkes, who forty years ago, in collaboration with G. C. Dunning, devoted to them the most penetrating article to be written on the subject. An overall survey of archaeological material attributable to the tribes named reveals a persistence of ancestral characteristics only among the 'Groupe de la Campine', in the form of elements derivative from Urnfield culture. It is possible to distinguish regional groups among the archaeological material of early La Tene in Belgium. In the west, in hills to the south of the River Scheldt's Haine tributary, a region incorporated after the conquest in the civitas Nerviorum, is found the very homogeneous 'Groupe de la Haine'. In the Haine group one or two finds from the La Courte cemetery at Leval-Trahegnies can be assigned to this phase, among others the grave containing a bronze chatelaine.
