The Wheel as a Cult-Symbol in the Romano-Celtic World

Miranda Green's The Wheel as a Cult-Symbol in the Romano-Celtic World, published by Latomus in 1984, is a specialist monograph examining wheel imagery in Iron Age and Roman period European religious material, carefully separating cases where a wheel symbol carries securely established solar meaning from other circular marks that later writers have labeled solar on visual resemblance alone rather than on contextual evidence. Green is a recognized specialist in Celtic and Romano-British religious iconography. Its strength is exactly that methodological caution, refusing to read every circular design as a sun symbol without independent support. Its limit is that the corpus of clearly solar wheel imagery is itself concentrated in particular regions and periods, so a claim generalizing wheel symbolism across the wider Celtic world beyond what Green's own evidence covers needs additional regional sources.