The Inrap teams speak of them as “international-level pieces that cannot be found anywhere else”.

The Brittany Museum in Rennes has just acquired four Gallic busts dating from the second century BC.


4 sculpted busts and a seal, dated between the 2nd and 1st centuries BC and discovered in 2019 by a team from @Inrap in Trémuson (Côtes d'Armor), have just been acquired by the @ bretagne museum.

An exceptional archaeological ensemble.



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Discovered in 2019 on an excavation site in Trémuson (Côtes-d'Armor), these remains are extremely rare because to date there are only about thirty works of this type known for Gaul, 13 of which have been discovered in Britain.

To buy these statuettes, bearing the effigy of members of the aristocracy, the Musée de Bretagne was able to count on the financial support of the public authorities and the Yves Rocher group.

The statuettes on display until December 4

The four sculptures are currently on display to the public at the Musée de Bretagne as part of the exhibition “Celtique?

which ends on December 4.

After the exhibition, the Gallic busts should take the direction of the museum of art and history of Saint-Brieuc where "a project of valorization of the parts is envisaged", indicates the museum of Brittany in a press release.

They should then join the permanent collections of the Rennes cultural establishment, which also got its hands on a seal dating from the same period.

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