{"id":224125,"date":"2026-01-09T10:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=224125"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:05:39","slug":"2000-year-old-military-trumpet-discovered-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/224125\/","title":{"rendered":"2,000-year-old military trumpet discovered in England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Archaeologists have recovered a rare 2,000-year-old war trumpet in England that may have been used in Queen Boudica’s wars against the Romans, Live Science<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The battle trumpet, also known as a carnyx, was part of a hoard of metal artifacts discovered ahead of residential construction in West Norfolk last year.<\/p>\n

As noted. finds of this kind are exceptionally rare in Britain and across Europe.<\/p>\n

Battle trumpets were used primarily by Celtic tribes in Iron Age Europe.<\/p>\n

The carnyx was a bronze wind instrument similar to a trumpet, but it had an elongated, vertical shape that ended in an open-mouthed animal, such as a boar. It was a common part of Celtic soldiers’ military gear, along with chain mail, shields and spears.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archaeologists have recovered a rare 2,000-year-old war trumpet in England that may have been used in Queen Boudica’s wars against the Romans, Live Science writes. The battle trumpet, also known as a carnyx, was part of a hoard of metal artifacts discovered ahead of residential construction in West Norfolk last year. As noted. finds of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":224049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224127,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224125\/revisions\/224127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}