In 1857, workmen building a bridge across the Thames hauled something extraordinary from the mud.
An Iron Age shield, 2,000 years old, its bronze surface alive with curling forms, red glass studs and patterns that seem to stare back.
Perhaps the most beautiful thing ever found in London.
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London Stories – Battersea Shield
Before London was London, someone carried an object of extraordinary beauty to the Thames and gave it to the water. Two thousand years later, the Battersea Shield emerged from the mud. This is the …
