04-03-2010, 03:05 PM
Back to you all,
Yes, going back to the early iron age. All of it was then connected to the isle. Barry Cunliffe did a small book years ago, British Cross-Channel Trade in the Iron Age. Quite helpful. It placed a lot of Roman amphorae in Briton before the Romans got there. Some containers held garum.
These people, I think, were descendants of the same bunch of Celts who stripped the Temple of Mount Olympus, although "Greek Lit. 101" never would admit it. They became the Galatians ("thems whats from Gaul"), and here again we see no real problem with cultural affinities with semi-steppe Iranian peoples. Trade in this area included ironworking, both Celtic and Chalybean... the last being a hotly-contested source for the phrase Exchalybur ("from chalybis," high-grade steel).
hock:
Quote:I ve heard of the Aquitanian Breton link before. Totally unsurprised by it because the coastal trade Galicia to Brittany seems to have been really very substantial, even in the Greek era. Everything from kasitterite to garum..succinite too. Punic connections in all that too!
Yes, going back to the early iron age. All of it was then connected to the isle. Barry Cunliffe did a small book years ago, British Cross-Channel Trade in the Iron Age. Quite helpful. It placed a lot of Roman amphorae in Briton before the Romans got there. Some containers held garum.
Quote: When you talk about Celto Alannic links, dont forget that Capadoccia too had a very large Celtic province... There has, one can be sure, always been a link, if only that between user and armourer!
These people, I think, were descendants of the same bunch of Celts who stripped the Temple of Mount Olympus, although "Greek Lit. 101" never would admit it. They became the Galatians ("thems whats from Gaul"), and here again we see no real problem with cultural affinities with semi-steppe Iranian peoples. Trade in this area included ironworking, both Celtic and Chalybean... the last being a hotly-contested source for the phrase Exchalybur ("from chalybis," high-grade steel).
hock:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
