The narrative of past centuries has led us to believe that we know who the fierce fighters, mystical druids and roundhouse-dwelling people we associate with northern and western parts of Britain and call the Celts were; but do we really?
It’s a term riddled with stereotypes and one which, somewhat misleadingly, conflates ancient cultures and modern perceptions of national identity. Predictably, the answer to who exactly the Celts were, is complex with all the twists and turns of a triskele.
The Celtic myth
For the past 500 years or so, Celts have been conveniently thought of as a homogeneous group of wild, untamed barbarians who worried the Greeks and the Romans with their ferocious warrior ways in central Europe. They then swept westwards, marauding across the
