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Metal detecting holidays in England with the Worlds most successful metal detecting club Twinned with Midwest Historical Research Society USA |
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The name Celt originated with the ancient Greeks,
who called the barbarian peoples of central Europe Keltoi. Rather that
being a broad cultural genetic 'race,' the Celts were a broad cultural-linguistic
group. The area where they lived became a constantly changing collection
of tribal 'nations.' The Celts were never an 'empire' ruled by one government.
The ancestors of the Celts were the people of the Urnfield culture,
so-called because they By the seventh century BC, the Hallstatt
people had become prosperous in the salt and iron businesses. In Archeologists call it the early La Tene period, after the definitive artifacts found at La Tene, on Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland. During the Classical period of Greece and Rome, Celtic culture was predominant north of the Alps. Celtic technicians of the La Tene period were technically superior to their Greek and Roman counterparts. Their superior weaponry, including a new type of sword, chain mail, and chariots, enabled the Celts to mount miliatary expiditions against neighboring tribes and nations, including the Greeks and Romans. Celtic fighting men had such a good reputation that they were in great demand as mercenareis. The warrior culture was at the heart of Celtic society, as the heroic sagas of ancient Ireland record. However. After the first century BC, they were
in retreat. Driven out of eastern Europe by Slavic tribes, they were
vanquished in the west by superior Roman forces. First the Celts in
northern Italy came under Roman rule. Then they were overwhelmed in
the rest of Gaul (modern France), modern Switzerland, southern Germany,
and Austria. Perhaps as the result of the Romans' pressure, many of
the Belgae emigrated from what is now |
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This link shows the Roman forts and the Celtic tribes, Trinovantes is the Colchester area and look for the word Oysters on the south east coast as this is where Colchester is.CAMVLODVNVM, CAMVLODVNENSIVM http://www.roman-britain.org/timeline.htm http://www.roman-britain.org/places/_mlm.htm This is a great bit on Roman Colchester http://www.roman-britain.org/places/camulodunum.htm
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