Time and place for this shield boss?

[Dan D'Silva]

Thanks Ivor.  The one from Branov is so similar that I could believe the repro is an inexact copy of it specifically.  Several obvious differences, IMO the biggest being that the original looks to me as though it has openings for spines, which if true suggests that it is indeed meant to cover a wooden boss.

The clearest explanation about the date for Glauberg that I can read is Thomas Stöllner's "Between ruling ideology and ancestor worship:  The Mos Maiorum of the early Celtic 'Hero Graves'" (JSTOR). The upshot is that according to Stöllner the burial goods are more characteristic of early La Tene than late Hallstatt.

Interesting to see that the Strettweg riders have long shields with round bosses.  I wonder what those looked like.