ABSTRACT
When in 1869 a ploughman disturbed a rich chariot burial of the Celtic nobility at Waldalgesheim just west of the middle Rhine in the Hunsruck, he opened the way to a new chapter in the history of European art, one not yet fully explored. To the manner of formal ornament so well displayed on this gold finery and bronze equipment Paul Jacobsthal gave the title Waldalgesheim Style. The Waldalgesheim Master must have taken his strange daisy-flowers with their blunted-tipped concave petalling, from the five-petalled flowers whose wiry stalks rise from the scroll edging-ribs on the Campanian bucket cartouches. The broad curved triangles were no new theme in early Celtic art when the Waldalgesheim Master was at work in the later fourth century. Ornament in the manner of the Waldalgesheim strap-bracelet is once again seen on a brooch from tomb 107 in the Munsingen cemetery.
