Historical Chart The Celts

Historical Chart

The Celts

The Romans

The Anglo-Jutes

The Vikings

The Norman Conquest

England and Wales

The Acts of Union

Queen Victoria

The Celts

•The Celts a group of people whose influence spread to Britain and Ireland from Austria and Switzerland in the late Bronze Age and Iron Age.

•Celtic society was organized in tribes, each of which had a king or chief and was then divided into warriors and noblemen, druids (learned people) such as doctors, priests and craftsmen, and ordinary people.

•Different forms of the Celtic language developed including Gaelic in Scotland and Ireland, and the Welsh and Cornish languages which are similar to Breton, the Celtic language of north-west France.

•Celtic culture became established in Britain and continued during the Roman occupation. In the south and east it combined with Roman culture, but remained separate in Scotland, Ireland and parts of Wales and south-west England.