The Celts
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Simon James's Ancient Celts Page
www.le.ac.uk/ar/stj/celtindex.html
Well-thought-of website by archaeologist, university teacher and author
of The Atlantic Celts: Ancient people or modern invention?
The Heuneburg Museum
www.dhm.de/museen/heuneburg/indexe.html
Subtitled ‘Early Celts on the Upper Danube’, this German
website contains a survey of the Celtic occupation of the hill fort in
central Germany, a timeline, information on the latest research and details
of how to get there and what to see.
Centre archeologique departemental de Ribemont-sur-Ancre
www.ribemontsurancre.cg80.fr
French website on the archaeological centre at Ribemont where the evidence
of a great Celtic battle was found during World War I. Has photographs
of the Celtic remains and of the excavations themselves.
Puy de Corent
http://luern.free.fr/Sommaire_uk.html
Website of archaeologist Matthieu Poux on the excavations in the Auvergne.
This is the only English page on the website, but there are plenty of
photographs and diagrams elsewhere on it to interest those who don’t
speak French.
Bibracte
www.bibracte.fr/index.php
French website of this former Gallic tribal centre. There are a couple
of English pages giving information on the site today.
The Wetwang chariot burial
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/
goto?id=ENC9988&tour=int
A ‘tour’ on the British Museum ‘Compass’ site
of the burial in Yorkshire of a Celtic woman in a chariot. At first,
this may seem quite modest, but click on the photographs and you will
find an increasing number of illustrations and quite detailed information.
Mousa Broch
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/mousa/mousabroch
Good website with interesting text and excellent photographs of the broch,
inside and out.
Castell Henllys
www.castellhenllys.com
Website of this reconstructed Iron-Age fortress in Wales.
Mummy from the bog
www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/
featured/lindowman.htm
Informal telling of the story of Lindow Man – how he was found
and the results of the scientific examination.
The doctor’s grave at the Stanway site
www.catuk.org/excavations/stanway/
doctor.html#docmap
An article about the grave goods discovered with the remains of the (possibly
Druid) doctor excavated outside Colchester, including photographs of
the finds. Part of the Colchester Archaeological Trust website.
The Skellig Experience
www.skelligexperience.com/skellig_experience.html
Exhibition on the Irish mainland that has recreations of the monastery
plus an audio-visual presentation. There is also information on how to
visit Skellig Michael, now designated a Unesco World Heritage Site.
The Book of Kells
www.bookofkells.ie/
A website basically designed to sell a CD-ROM of the book on behalf of
Trinity College Dublin, where it is housed. However, this also has some
useful information, a timeline and images from a couple of pages.
Irish!=Celts
www.johnbreslin.com/blog/2004/09/05/irish-celts/
A section from John Breslin’s blog Cloudlands containing
an ongoing discussion on the implications of DNA research in determining
the origins of ‘Celtic’ populations in Ireland and elsewhere.
