Science: Archaeology: Periods and Cultures: Celtic

David Freeman takes an archaeological and historical look at the British Celts. Illustrated text on weapons, round houses, clothing, art, artefacts. History, glossary and bibliography.

Online database of all non-Runic inscriptions on stone monuments in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Dumnonia, Brittany and the Isle of Man AD 400-1000. Hosted by University College London.

The Internet version by John Hooker and Carin Perron. The coins of the Atrebatian king Epaticcus are on-line. Further records will be added in order of original cataloguing. Bibliography.

The author of the controversial 'The Atlantic Celts' gives a summary of his views challenging the concept of Iron Age Britain as inhabited by Celts.

An illustrated art-historical analysis of coins of the Coriosolites of Brittany by John Hooker, based on the La Marquanderie hoard from Jersey. Maps of hoard discoveries and mint zones.

The archaeology of a Celtic town in upper Swabia. Excavation finds in the Museum and the hiking trail to the burial mounds and other monuments in the landscape.

Gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of La Tne and Romano-Celtic artifacts in museums, with captions, from Images from World History.

Article from Athena Review on one of the most important hillforts in Gaul, capital of the Aedui. Covers the historical sources and archaeology. Includes plan.

Brief tourist guide from the Conseil General de la Nieve of the site of the capital of the Eduens, a powerful Gaulish tribe, and the Celtic Civilisation Museum at the foot of Mont Beuvray.

Draft report of members of the Iron Age Research Seminar on future research directions for British Iron Age archaeology.

Dating from prehistory this settlement prospered in the first century B.C. A brief summary and photograph albums of the excavations from 2001 onwards. Map and travel hints to reach the site.

Dr Simon James asks just who were the Britons and did the Celts ever really exist? From BBC Archaeology and Ancient History.

The University of North Carolina provides an image database searchable in various ways, along with maps, timelines, discussion of design, features on topics and an illustrated glossary.

Michael Wangbickler introduces the Hallstatt culture and its successor, that of La Tne, with some comment on earlier European cultures.

The focus of this project is a group of burial mounds or tumuli associated with one of the best excavated and most extensively studied late Hallstatt period (~600-400 BCE) hillfort settlements in western Europe, the Heuneburg.

Description and images of a Celtic hillfort near Bopfingen, Baden-Wurttemberg.