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During the later Iron Age the Gauls generally wore long-sleeved shirts or tunics and long trousers.

Clothes were made of wool or linen, with some silk being used by the rich. Cloaks were worn in the winter. Brooches and armlets were used, but the most famous item of jewellery was the torc, a neck collar of metal, sometimes gold.

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The Celts kept their own cows, chickens and other livestock – sometimes the animals would come into their homes at night, as they didn’t have their own stable.

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Some historians claim that there were Celts in Britain about 1180 B.C., while others argue that it was earlier. However, it is generally accepted that the Celts started to migrate from Central Europe in 400 B.C. They spread in all directions, that is, until they came face to face with the Romans.

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these are some tribes in England.

Dumnonii - Cornwall, Devon and parts of Southern Somerset.

Durotriges - Dorset, southern Wiltshire and Somerset.

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No-one called the people living in Britain during the Iron Age Celts until the eighteenth century. In fact the Romans called these people Britons, not Celts. The name Celts is a 'modern' name and is used to collectively describe all the many tribes of people living during the Iron Age.

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From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. There were many groups (tribes) of Celts, speaking a vaguely common language.

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1. The Celts lived during the Iron Age, from about 600 BC to 43 AD. This is the time when iron was discovered and used.

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The Celts wear bronze helmets with figures picked out on them, even horns, which made them look even taller than they already are...while others cover themselves with breast-armour made out of chains. But most content themselves with the weapons nature gave them: they go naked into battle...Weird, discordant horns were sounded, [they shouted in chorus with their deep and harsh voices, they beat their swords rhythmically against their shields.”
Written by Diodorus, a Roman historian.

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The Celts also loved to wear jewelery made from bronze, gold, tin, silver, coral and enamel.

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Celtic warriors carried long, or oval shaped shields, spears, daggers and long slashing swords made of iron.

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1. The Iron Age ended when the Romans invaded Britain and set up their own civilisation and government.

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1. The Celts who settled in England were split into many different tribes, each ruled by a king or queen.

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The Celtic tribes lived in scattered villages. They lived in round houses with thatched roofs of straw or heather.The walls of their houses were made from local material. Houses in the south tended to be made from wattle (woven wood) and daub (straw and mud) as there was an ample supply of wood from the forests.

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The Celts are credited with the invention of soap!

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1. In battle, Celts mainly fought with swords and spears, and they used long shields to protect themselves.

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The Celts were a proud and honorable people. They lived in small farming communities. They loved music. They loved to boast. And they loved to make up stories, especially stories about the little people - fairies, elves, and leprechauns.
The Celts invented loads of things but the most famous one was soap!

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Clothes were made from wool and dyed with natural vegetable dyes (plants and berries) and woven by hand on a vertical loom.

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The Celts wore brightly coloured clothing, and made fabric dyes from berries, plants and even seaweed. Dyeing was something that only women could do – it was considered bad luck to dye cloth if a man was around!

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Cloaks were made from wool and fastened by brooaches and pins.

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1. Most Celts were farmers, and they lived in houses that were round instead of square.

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The Iron Age Celts were a tribe of people who lived all over Europe about two thousand years ago. At one time, you could find tribes of Celts in modern day Spain, France, northern Italy, and as far east as Russia.

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'The way they dress is astonishing: they wear brightly coloured and embroidered shirts, with trousers called bracae and cloaks fastened at the shoulder with a brooch, heavy in winter, light in summer. These cloaks are striped or checkered in design, with the separate checks close together and in various colours'

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The Celts were a proud and honorable people. They were also very clean. The Celts are credited with the invention of soap! They loved music. They loved to boast. And they loved to make up stories, especially stories about the little people - fairies, elves, and leprechauns.

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No-one called the people living in Britain during the Iron Age, Celts until the eighteenth century. In fact the Romans called these people Britons, not Celts. The name Celts is a 'modern' name and is used to collectively describe all the many tribes of people living during the Iron Age.

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Celts like to paint ther bodies.

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They lived in small farming communities. They never built cities. They were fierce warriors. But they never founded an empire.

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The Celts lived in the Iron Age (iron was invented then).

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The Celts also loved to wear jewellery made from bronze, gold, tin, silver, coral and enamel.

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The Celts were a proud and honorable people.

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Around 500 BCE, the ancient Celts migrated and settled in modern day Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and the Isle of Man.

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Celts lived during a period known as the Iron Ages. This was a time when iron was used instead of bronze, to craft weapons, armor, and tools.

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Some Celtic warriors used lime (like we use hair mousse today) to dress their hair into spikes and tattooed their skin with blue dye, called woad (the name Picts comes from the Latin for 'painted people').

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1. The Celts lived during the Iron Age, from about 600 BC to 43 AD. This is the time when iron was discovered and used.

2. The Iron Age ended when the Romans invaded Britain and set up their own civilisation and government.

3. The people who lived in Britain during the Iron Age weren’t called ‘Celts’ until the 1700s. The name is used to describe all the different tribes that lived in Britain then.

4. There were three main branches of Celts in Europe – Brythonic, Gaulic and Gaelic. Brythonic Celts (Britons) settled in England.

5. The Celts who settled in England were split into many different tribes, each ruled by a king or queen.

6. The Celts believed in many different gods that affected every part of everyday life. Druids, who were priests in Celtic society, tried to figure out what the gods wanted.

7. Men and women in Celtic times usually wore long tunics with different accessories, such as coats, capes or belts.

8. Most Celts were farmers, and they lived in houses that were round instead of square.

9. In battle, Celts mainly fought with swords and spears, and they used long shields to protect themselves.

10. Some people can still speak Celtic languages such as Welsh and Gaelic.

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The Iron Age Celts were a tribe of people who lived all over Europe about two thousand years ago.

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From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. There were many groups (tribes) of Celts, speaking a vaguely common language.

The word Celt comes from the Greek word, Keltoi, which means barbarians and is properly pronounced as "Kelt".

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Women could have power, own land, and even divorce in Celtic society, which was unheard of in the classical world. (Unlike their Roman counterparts, Celtic women could also climb up the social ladder, either by inheriting status, or by achieving it.) Landowners were expected to fight if their chief went to war, and if the landowner happened to be a woman, then she was expected to fight as well. In fact, women warriors could teach young girls and boys how to fight.

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The Iron Age Celts lived here 750 years before Jesus was born. The Iron Age ended in AD43 (43 years after Jesus was born) when the Romans invaded Britain.

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Celts, speaking a vaguely common language.The word Celt comes from the Greek word, Keltoi, which means barbarians and is properly pronounced as "Kelt".Interesting factNo-one called the people living in Britain during the Iron Age, Celts until the eighteenth century. In fact the Romans called these people Britons, not Celts. The name Celts is a 'modern' name and is used to collectively describe all the many tribes of people living during the Iron Age.

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The Celts who settled in England were split into many different tribes, each ruled by a king or queen.

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The Goidelic Celts were first to invade Britain.

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The Celts would light a fire in the middle of the roundhouse for cooking and heating. It must have been very smoky inside.

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The first historical recorded encounter of a people displaying the cultural traits associated with the Celts comes from northern Italy around 400 BC, when a previously unkown group of barbarians came down from the Alps and displaced the Etruscans from the fertile Po valley, a displacment that helped to push the Etruscans from history's limelight.

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From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. There were many groups (tribes) of Celts, speaking a vaguely common language. The word Celt comes from the Greek word, Keltoi, which means barbarians and is properly pronounced as "Kelt".

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Sometimes groups of houses were built on the top of hills. These are called hill-forts. The largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Britain today is Maiden Castle in Dorset.

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The Celts loved bright dazzling colours. They dyed their woollen trousers and tops bright colours.

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In battle, Celts mainly fought with swords and spears, and they used long shields to protect themselves

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1The Celts were a proud and honorable people. They were also very clean. The Celts are credited with the invention of soap! They loved music. They loved to boast. And they loved to make up stories, especially stories about the little people - fairies, elves, and leprechauns.

2The Celts believed that demons an

Music, both vocal and instrumental, was very important to the ancient Celts. Each night, as they sat around the campfire, they played music on instruments they made. Kids learned on their parents instruments.

3When a child reached the age of 14 or 15, they started to make their own musical instrument. It was something all Celts did, whatever their clan.

4Instruments included flutes, whistles, the bagpipes, the Celtic harp, a drum played with a two-headed stick, and the fiddle.

5Music, both vocal and instrumental, was very important to the ancient Celts. Each night, as they sat around the campfire, they played music on instruments they made. Kids learned on their parents instruments.

6When a child reached the age of 14 or 15, they started to make their own musical instrument. It was something all Celts did, whatever their clan.

7Instruments included flutes, whistles, the bagpipes, the Celtic harp, a drum played with a two-headed stick, and the fiddle.

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They wear brightly coloured and stitched shirts, with trousers called bracae and cloaks fastened at the shoulder with a brooch, heavy in winter, light in summer. These cloaks are striped or checkered in design, with the separate checks close together and in various colours'.

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The Celts did not have a writing system so knowledge of their society comes from accounts by other cultures and Celtic artwork.

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The Iron Age Celts lived here 750 years before Jesus was born.

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The ancient Celts were a branch of the Indo-Europeans, an ethnico-linguistic group that also included Germanic, Slavic, Greek and Indo-Iranian people. From their homeland in the Pontic-Caspian Steppes, the Proto-Indo-Europeans went to conquer most of Europe, Central Asia and South Asia from 4000 BCE onwards thanks to the advent of the Bronze Age in the North Caucasus.

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The Celts believed in many gods and goddesses: over 400 in fact.

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The body of an Iron Age Celt was found in a bog in Cheshire in 1984. He is called the Lindow Man, and could have died as part of a sacrifice to the gods worshipped at that time.

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Some Celtic warriors used lime (like we use hair mousse today) to dress their hair into spikes and tattooed their skin with blue dye, called woad (the name Picts comes from the Latin for 'painted people').

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The Brythonic (British) Celts

Before the Romans arrived, Britain consisted of a patchwork of tribal areas, each with its own king. Life was hard for the Celtic tribes. They were mainly farmrs who grew, gathered or hunted for their own food. They were also fierce warriors who were often at war with each other.

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Celts started to migrate from Central Europe in 400 B.C They spread in all directions, that is, until they came face to face with the Romans.

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Celtic priests, called Druids, were the link between the supernatural world and the ordinary human one. They were able to predict what would happen in the future by interpreting nature.

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Many Celts went into battle unprotected by helmets or armour. They often fought naked - and it's believed that women fought as well.

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No-one called the people living in Britain during the Iron Age, Celts until the eighteenth century. In fact the Romans called these people Britons, not Celts. The name Celts is a 'modern' name and is used to collectively describe all the many tribes of people living during the Iron Age.

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Before the Romans arrived, Britain consisted of a patchwork of tribal areas, each with its own king. Life was hard for the Celtic tribes. They were mainly farmrs who grew, gathered or hunted for their own food. They were also fierce warriors who were often at war with each other.

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Most Celts were farmers, and they lived in houses that were round instead of square

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The period of time in Britain immediately before the Roman period is known as the Iron Age. The name 'Iron Age' comes from the discovery of a new metal called iron. The Celts found out how to make iron tools and weapons.

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The Iron Age Celts were a tribe of people who lived all over Europe about two thousand years ago. At one time, you could find tribes of Celts in modern day Spain, France, northern Italy, and as far east as Russia.

The Celts were a proud and honorable people. They were also very clean. The Celts are credited with the invention of soap! They loved music. They loved to boast. And they loved to make up stories, especially stories about the little people - fairies, elves, and leprechauns.

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There are still quite a lot of Celts living in the British Isles today. They live mainly in Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Ireland.

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The wool cloth material made on the loom would then have been sewn together using a bone or metal needle and wool thread.

Before being woven the wool was spun using drop spindles.

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From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. There were many groups (tribes) of Celts, speaking a vaguely common language.

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The Celtic warrior's deadliest weapon was his long sword, which he whirled around his head and brought crashing down on the enemy ,They often fought naked.

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There were no supermarkets or shops to buy food so the celts ate what food they could grow or hunt

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Northwest Europe was dominated by three main Celtic groups:

the Gauls

the Britons

the Gaels

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The people who lived in Britain during the Iron Age weren’t called ‘Celts’ until the 1700s. The name is used to describe all the different tribes that lived in Britain then

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The period of time in Britain immediately before the Roman period is known as the Iron Age. The name 'Iron Age' comes from the discovery of a new metal called iron. The Celts found out how to make iron tools and weapons

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The celts were also very clean. The Celts are credited with the invention of soap! They loved music. They loved to boast. And they loved to make up stories,

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The Celtic tribes lived in scattered villages. They lived in round houses with thatched roofs of straw or heather.The walls of their houses were made from local material. Houses in the south tended to be made from wattle (woven wood) and daub (straw and mud) as there was an ample supply of wood from the forests.

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They lived in small farming communities. They never built cities. They were fierce warriors. But they never founded an empire.

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The Celts actively traded with the Mediterranean world, exchanging notably their iron tools and weapons for wine and pottery. They also imported amber from the Baltic to resell to the Romans and Greeks.

The Celtic nobility were also known to be clean shaven with well trimmed hair following the fashion of the time. Tweezers were also found on archeological sites.

The Celts invented the chainmail (around 300 BCE) and the helmets later used by Roman legionaries. Celtic swords and shields were at least as good as the Roman's.

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The Iron Age Celts lived here 750 years before Jesus was born. The Iron Age ended in AD43 (43 years after Jesus was born) when the Romans invaded Britain.

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The word Celt comes from the Greek word, Keltoi, which means barbarians and is properly pronounced as "Kelt".