Somme-Bionne () is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern

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. An important

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chariot burial of 450-300 BC was found in the vicinity of the village in the nineteenth century. The finds from the La Tène period grave came into the possession of the French collector Léon Morel, who sold it, along with his entire antiquities collection from the

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of France, to the

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in 1901.British Museum Collection
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Finds from the Celtic Somme-Bionne chariot burial

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Finds from the Celtic Somme-Bionne chariot burial

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