thanks to Susan for spotting this. It's a coincidence that I have recently posted about boar standards.
Thetford dig unearths Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard - BBC News
Archaeologists have been stunned to discover two of the rarest Iron Age objects in the same excavation.
The team from Pre-Construct Archaeology was working on a building site a few miles from Thetford, Norfolk, when they came across the hoard last year.
At its heart was the most complete battle trumpet, or carnyx, ever found in Europe - and the first-ever boar's head flag standard to be found in Britain.
Senior project officer Gary Trimble told BBC Two's Digging for Britain, carnyces "are extraordinarily rare... a boar standard, that's even rarer".
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