The Gundestrup cauldron. Decorated silver vessel, thought to date between 200 BC and 300 AD, placing it within the late La Te_ne period or early Roman Iron Age. Gundestrup in the Aars parish of Himmerland, Denmark. Warrior's initiation. Bottom: row of warriors bearing shields supporting a tree on their spears accompanied by three figures playing boar-headed carnyxes. Above: the tree ride four wariors, each with a boar-crested helmet. On the left-hand is a giant figure who is immersing a figure in a cauldron. National Museum of Denmark.