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World of the Celts
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.
Understanding the British Iron Age
http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~lascretn/IAAgenda.htm
Draft report of members of the Iron Age Research Seminar on future research directions for British Iron Age archaeology.
The Heuneburg Museum
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.
Simon James's Ancient Celts Page
http://www.ares.u-net.com/celtindx.htm
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.
Pretanic World
The archaeology, history, religion and culture of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from the Neolithic period through the Celtic Era. Includes riddles, timelines, articles and contests.
Origin of the Celts
http://realmagick.com/articles/32/1032.html
Michael Wangbickler introduces the Hallstatt culture and its successor, that of La Tne, with some comment on earlier European cultures.
Mount Ipf
http://home.bawue.de/~wmwerner/english/ipf.html
Description and images of a Celtic hillfort near Bopfingen, Baden-Wurttemberg.
Hollingbury Hillfort
http://matt.pope.users.btopenworld.com/hollin/Hollinhome.htm
Guide to the archaeology of an Iron Age hillfort and Bronze Age burial ground near Brighton in the UK. Contains details of finds and landscape features, origins and prehistory of the site, and local resources.
Heuneburg Archaeological Project
http://www.uwm.edu/~barnold/arch/
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.
Celtic Museum
http://www.keltenmuseum.de/english/index.html
A Celtic chieftain's grave burrow in Baden-Wurttemberg.
Celtic Inscribed Stones
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/
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.
Celtic Improvisations
http://www.writer2001.com/improvisations.htm
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.
Celtic Hillfort at Duensberg in Germany
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.
Celtic Coin Index on the Web
http://www.writer2001.com/cciwriter2001/
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.