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Clearing up ‘the Celts’

On July 4, 2025 By creedofcaledonIn Iron Age, Prehistory (Stone Age & Bronze Age)Leave a comment

“When at any time they cut off their enemies heads, they hang them about their horses necks...they fasten those they have killed over the doors of their houses...showing them to strangers...[but] they refuse to take for one of these heads its weight in gold” - Diodorus of Sicily, 1st century BC “Some of them use …

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The story of Scotland’s hillforts

On August 23, 2024August 23, 2024 By Conor CummingsIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

What the hillfort called the 'White Caterthun' in Angus might have looked like, by Kieran Baxter, pinterest.co.uk Imagine you are living in Scotland in the year 218 BC, the same year Hannibal crossed the Alps to fight the Romans. You must see your tribal chieftain for an important matter; you have wound your way through …

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