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As the Iron Age emerged from the preceding Bronze Age, it becomes legitimate to talk of a Celtic culture in Scotland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was an age of forts and farmsteads, the most dramatic remains of which are brochs some of whose walls still exceed 6.5 m (21 ft) in height.
The Britons (*Pritanī, Latin: Britanni, Welsh: Brythoniaid), also known as Celtic Britons [1] or Ancient Britons, were the indigenous Celtic people [2] who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). [2]
The main Iron Age tribes in Southern Britain. The names of the Celtic Iron Age tribes in Britain were recorded by Roman and Greek historians and geographers, especially Ptolemy. Information from the distribution of Celtic coins has also shed light on the extents of the territories of the various groups that occupied the island.
Like other European Iron Age societies, the Celts practised a polytheistic religion and believed in an afterlife. [188] [189] [unreliable source] Celtic religion varied by region and over time, but had "broad structural similarities", [188] and there was "a basic religious homogeneity" among the Celtic peoples. [190]
1 Late Iron Age. 2 Roman times. 3 Name. 4 The Barnetby bull rider. 5 References. ... were a Celtic tribe living in Britain prior to the Roman conquest, ...
Reconstruction of a British Iron Age Celtic roundhouse at Butser Ancient Farm. Roundhouses were the standard form of housing built in Britain and Ireland from the Bronze Age throughout the Iron Age, and in some areas well into the Sub Roman period.
This theory links the Celts with the Iron Age Hallstatt culture which followed it (c. 1200 –500 BC), named for the rich grave finds in Hallstatt, Austria, and with the following La Tène culture (c. 450 BC onward), named after the La Tène site in Switzerland.
The Battersea Shield, c. 350–50 BC. The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.