Who were the ancient Celtic tribes of Britain? In this video I’m going to explore the fascinating Celtic history of these Iron Age Brythonic tribes, and tell you a bit about their history and their Celtic culture.

This video is going to focus on where these Celts lived, and how we know, examining the Iron Age archaeological findings such as their Celtic coins and pottery, in order to draw a map as to where these Brittonic tribes of Celts might have lived.

For this particular video, I’m going to focus on the Celtic tribes and Celtic history of southern iron-age Britain in 100BC, namely the Celtic tribes of the Cantii (or the Cantiaci), the Atrebates, the Regni, the Belgae, the Durotriges, the Dumnonii, the Dobunni, the Catuvellauni, the Trinovantes, the Iceni (with Boudicca), the Corieltauvi, the Cornovii, the Ordovices, the Deceangli, the Gangani, the Silures, and finally the Demetae.

Sources:
Cunliffe, B. (2004). Iron Age Communities in Britain. Routledge.

Cunliffe, B.W. (2012). Britain begins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.1–5.

James, S. (2005). The World of the Celts. London ; New York: Thames & Hudson, pp.47–48.

Davies, J. (2007). A History of Wales. London: Penguin, pp.14-42.

Primary Sources:
Ptolemy's 'Geography':
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...

Tacitus's 'Annals':
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_An...

Julius Caesar's 'Gallic War':
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...

Maps:
© OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
https://www.floodmap.net/

Music:
'Another Version of You', 'Readers! Do You Read?', 'CGI Snake' by Chris Zabriskie are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/dtv/

Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

Images:
Stonehenge, CC0, via the Cleveland Museum of Art

Druid, Cæsar in Kent, The Fens, Caractacus, all CC0, via The British Library

Herodotus Map - Bibi Saint-Pol, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cassiterite - Smithsonian Open Access, CC0

Vexilloid - Ssolbergj, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Ptolomaeus Alexandrinus, CC0, via Leipzig University Library

Brythonic Coins and Pottery, CC-BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via the Portable Antiquties Scheme

Kent Map, Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Boudcia - Paul Walter, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons