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The Celts were described by classical writers such as Strabo, Livy, Pausanias, and Florus as fighting like "wild beasts", and as hordes. Dionysius said that their "manner of fighting, being in large measure that of wild beasts and frenzied, was an erratic procedure, quite lacking in military science.

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Germanic hexagonal shield, 1st – 3rd cen. AD.
Germanic hexagonal shield, 1st – 3rd cen. AD.
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Germanic shield, 1st-3rd century A.D.
Germanic shield, 1st-3rd century A.D.
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Shield with Celtic Boars
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A Robust Shield Can Deflect the Strongest Blows and Protect Your Life
A Robust Shield Can Deflect the Strongest Blows and Protect Your Life
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Celtic shields

Thus, at one moment they would raise their swords aloft and smite after the manner of wild boars, throwing the whole weight of their bodies into the blow like hewers of wood or men digging with mattocks, and again they would deliver crosswise blows aimed at no target, as if they intended to cut to pieces the entire bodies of their adversaries, protective armour and all". Such descriptions have been challenged by contemporary historians. Celtic shield.