The Celts

The Celts were tribes of warriors who shared a similar language, religion and culture. They gradually settled in Britain between about 500 and 100 B.C. They brought ironworking to the British Isles; it affected trade and helped develop local independence. The basic unit of Celtic life was the clan, clans were joined together with other clans to form tribes. The tribes lived in huts made of timber inside hill forts and  practiced agriculture when they were not fighting in wars. In the society women were almost equal to men. The Celts didn’t write literature, in fact they relied on the oral transmission of culture. In the end they worshipped the natural elements and they held their religious rites in the woodsand near the sacred water of wells and springs.