Celtic leaf-crown

[c][7]: 202  The leaf-crown is a ubiquitous motif in early La Tène art, surviving on precious metalwork and on stone monuments.

[15]: 226–227  For example, the leaf-crown is depicted in concert with the Near Eastern Master of Animals motif on a belt-clasp found at the Weiskirchen barrow and on the Dürrnberg beaked jug [de].

[9]: 59–61 [16]: 11–12  Archaeologist Venceslas Kruta has suggested that the leaf-crown arose from a combination of the palmette and lotus flower designs, both broadly Meditteranean motifs.

A stater of the Bodiocasses, dating to the 2nd or 1st century BC, has an obverse depicting a human head with horn-like protrusions which T. G. E. Powell has connected with the leaf-crown.

[19]: 269–270 [6]: 10–12, 18–20  As Vincent Megaw has put it, "to the Celt the human head was regarded as all-important, the heart and soul in one, the symbol of divinity and the Otherworld".

Pliny describes a Celtic ritual in which druids cut mistletoe from an oak and mixed it to make a fertility potion.

A life-sized sandstone statue found here, called the Glauberg prince or warrior, is one the best known leaf-crowned figures in early La Tène art.

[10][20]: 121  The ceremonial Agris Helmet, which bears the holes for some sort of crest, has also been suggested to have originally borne a leather leaf-crown.