Celtic Europe

Isle of Skye from outer space. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The isle Skye is first recorded in Ptolemy’s Map of the world with the name Scetis. The later Ravenna Cosmography renders the name Scitis, while the various Irish chronicles call it Scíth. The word is undoubtedly Celtic…

Gyptis offers the bowl of wine to Protis; art by Sandrine Duval. 🇬🇷 ⚜️ 🇫🇷 Around the year 600 B.C; a marriage between a Gallic chieftain’s daughter and a Greek merchant led to the foundation of the city of Massalia —now Marseille— in southern France. Protis , son of Euxenus came to Gaul from the Greek city of Phocaea (modern Foça in Turkey) and established contact with a local Celtic tribe, the Segobriges . The…

Doon ring-fort in county Donegal, Ireland. 🇮🇪 The construction of Doon fort is dated to the 5th century AD. It was likely a residence for local chiefs of the Cenél mBógaine sept of Cenél Conaill for many centuries. https://t.me/CelticEurope

Artistic reconstruction of the Pictish fortified homestead (or “dun”) of Torr-Dhuin in the Highlands of Scotland; art by Chris Mitchell. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Torr-Dhuin is located near Auchteraw in the Great Glen, between Loch Ness and Loch Oich. It has not been extensively excavated and therefore is undated; typology alone suggests late iron age to early medieval period. https://t.me/CelticEurope

Left: Iron horse-hoof scrapers discovered in a Celtiberian burial at Bronchales, in Teruel province, Spain; 5th century B.C. Right: Iron horse-shoe discovered in the Celtiberian necropolis of Aguilar de Anguita, in Guadalajara province, Spain; 3rd century B.C. 🇪🇸 Celtiberian horse-shoes are among the earliest known in archaeology, rivaled only by Etruscan finds from northern Italy dating to ~400 B.C. Recent finds of…

Afon (river) Eden in Coed-y-Brenin (Welsh: “the king’s forest”) forest park; Gwynedd, Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://t.me/CelticEurope

Celtic iron sword discovred near Rzeszów, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of Poland; early La Tène (4th century B.C.) period. 🇵🇱 https://t.me/CelticEurope