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The Celts, also known as the Iron Age Celts, were people that lived in the present-day Britain and Northern Ireland. Some say that the Celts were the original Brits.
The Celts famously had round houses, with the roof being made of straw in the shape of a cone. The walls of the houses were usually made of mud.
As you can see in the house above, there is a hole at the top of the roof. This is because Celtic houses usually had a fire going in the middle of the house so they could cook animals and keep warm. Surrounding the fire were beds where Celts would sleep.
A lot of the food that they ate was grown or killed close to where they lived. This included vegetables like carrots, onions and turnips and meat like fish, pigs and chickens. Other things they ate include:
- grains (such as wheat)
When did the Celts exist?
They still exist today, with Celtic languages being spoken in Cornwall, Wales, parts of Scotland and Ireland. The Celts started becoming more Roman in the centuries after the Romans had invaded.
Roman invasion
The successful Roman invasion in 47AD changed the way the Celts lived. A lot of Celts moved to Scotland, where the Romans built Hadrian’s Wall. This was because the Romans couldn’t take over Scotland since they would lose too many soldiers.
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Who were the Celts?
The name ‘Celts’ (pronounced ‘kelts’) is used to describe all of the people who lived in Britain and northwest Europe during the Iron Age – from 600 BC to 43 AD, which is when the Romans arrived.
The Celts were a very advanced society. For instance, they learned how to make weapons from iron, which is why we call the time they lived in the “ Iron Age ”. In Britain, the Celts settled in areas such as Cornwall and Wales .
Top 10 facts
- The Celts lived during the Iron Age , from about 600 BC to 43 AD . This is the time when iron was discovered and used.
- The Iron Age ended when the Romans invaded Britain and set up their own civilisation and government.
- The people who lived in Britain during the Iron Age weren’t called ‘Celts’ until the 1700s. The name is used to describe all the different tribes that lived in Britain then.
- There were three main branches of Celts in Europe – Brythonic , Gaulic and Gaelic . Brythonic Celts (Britons) settled in England.
- The Celts who settled in England were split into many different tribes, each ruled by a king or queen.
- The Celts believed in many different gods who affected every part of everyday life. Druids , who were priests in Celtic society, tried to figure out what the gods wanted.
- Men and women in Celtic times usually wore long tunics with different accessories, such as coats, capes or belts.
- Most Celts were farmers , and they lived in houses that were round instead of square.
- In battle , Celts mainly fought with swords and spears, and they used long shields to protect themselves.
- Some people can still speak Celtic languages such as Welsh and Gaelic .
The Celts timeline
- 335 BC Celtic tribes signed a peace treaty with Alexander the Great, ensuring peace between the Celts and the Greeks
- 70 BC Druids arrived in Britain
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- The Iron Age is named for the fact that people first started using iron to make weapons and tools. Before this, they’d have used bronze .
- Brythonic (also called Britons), who lived around modern-day Cornwall and Wales
- Gaelic (also called Gaels), who were based in Ireland , Scotland and the Isle of Man
- Gaulic (also called Gauls), who lived across modern-day France , Belgium, Switzerland and northern Italy
- The Celts wore brightly coloured clothing, and made fabric dyes from berries, plants and even seaweed. Dyeing was something that only women could do – it was considered bad luck to dye cloth if a man was around!
- The Celts lived in round houses with thatched roofs – they were made in the shape of circles, rather than with four walls.
- Many Celts were farmers, so they grew their own food and learned where they could gather nuts, berries and honey around their village.
- The Celts also kept their own cows, chickens and other livestock – sometimes the animals would come into their homes at night, as they didn’t have their own stable.
- Groups of houses built on top of hills were called hill forts – people living there could see if any enemies were coming just by looking out over the valleys, and could build strong walls around their hill to help defend it.
- Some people can still speak languages that the Celts spoke, Welsh and Gaelic .
Celts gallery
- A map of Iron Age Europe
- A roundhouse reconstruction at the Ancient Technology Outdoor Education Centre in Cranbourne, Dorset (Photo Credit: Clive Perrin)
- Celtic coins
- A real Iron Age Celtic sword
- A Celtic knot design
- A reconstructed Celtic village in Gabreta, Germany
- The "Castro de Barona" in Spain, the excavated site of an old Celtic fortress settlement
The body of an Iron Age Celt was found in a bog in Cheshire in 1984. He is called the Lindow Man , and could have died as part of a sacrifice to the gods worshipped at that time.
In Celtic society, people could tell how wealthy you were just by looking down at your feet. Shoes would have taken a lot of time and skill to make, so only higher class people would be able to afford them. Celtic women usually wore two types of garments called the léine (a long tunic) and the brat (a cloak). Celtic men also wore léines and brats, but they’d also sometimes wear an inar (a jacket) over truis (trousers or shorts).
While you often hear about people in past times not taking very good care of themselves, the Celts liked to stay clean, smelling nice, and make an effort with their appearance. Archaeologists have found beautiful jewellery such as torc necklaces, razor blades for shaving, combs and hair accessories that tell us about what sorts of things the Celts would have used.
Celtic priests were called Druids , and the Celts believed that they understood nature and the world around them so well that they predict the future from it. Druids also acted as judges in Celtic society, and even doctors; they knew a lot about the healing properties of plants, and which ones would help someone feel better if they were ill or hurt. The Celts believed that there were gods for every part of life, and that the Druids were the ones who understood how to speak to them and interpret what they wanted.
If there was a battle in Celtic times, anyone could be asked to fight – women as well as men. Celts used iron spears and swords, and they also carried long shields made from wood or iron. Some Celtic tribes would use blue paint to draw designs on their skin before going to battle.
A famous Celt is Warrior Queen Boudicca , who led an uprising against the Romans when they invaded Britain. Histories think that she poisoned herself when her soldiers were losing, and the Romans were about to take them prisoner.
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- Gruesome mini-games to play: Horrible Histories: Romans vs Celts
- "Visit" Celtic Britain : see postcards of the sights, be prepared with travellers' essentials and learn some useful phrases
- Take a Celts, Bronze Age, and Iron Age quiz to show off your knowledge
- Download, print and make a paper model of a roundhouse
- Take the Rotten Romans & Cut-throat Celts quiz
- Build your own stone circle
- Learn to draw the elaborate Celtic knots used for decoration by the ancient Celts
- Make your own Celtic armlet (print the template and the instructions to make it in clay or in card )
Books about the Celts for children
Find out more about the Celts:
- Information about Celtic life in Britain from a British Museum exhibition , with images of beautiful artefacts
- See a map of where the different native tribes of Britain lived in the Iron Age
- Information about Celtic religion and Celtic warriors
- Look through a collection of images of reconstructed Celtic roundhouses
- Watch BBC Bitesize videos about life in Celtic Britain
- Understand more about the Picts in Scotland in BBC Bitesize videos
- There are some wonderful BBC video clips about different aspects of Celtic life: find out about Celtic jewellery , Celtic artefacts , Celtic statues , everyday Celtic objects , Celtic water gods , Celtic religion , Celtic clothing , Celtic funerals , Celtic burial rites and Celtic burial chambers .
- Watch video clips to understand what a Celtic village looked like, how people lived in Celtic villages , Celtic roundhouse design , dwellings in a Celtic town and brochs , Celtic houses in the area which was formerly occupied by Picts and is now Scotland. An excavation at Chysauster, site of a Celtic village in south western Cornwall, shows what the ruins of roundhouses look like today .
- See pictures of beautiful Celtic art
- What did the Celts look like? Find out more about the reconstruction of a Celtic warrior's body found at Lindow Moss in Cheshire , famously known as the Lindow Man. His last meal was also analysed to understand more about his diet!
- Read children's fiction about the Celts
- Iron Age Celts in Ireland
- Find out about Celtic objects and art , including a Celtic sword and scabbard dating from 60 BC
See for yourself
- "Visit" Celtic Britain with a BBC Bitesize interactive guide
- See the Lindow Man at the British Museum
- The Maiden Castle hill fort in Dorchester is the UK’s largest and most complex example of an Iron Age hill fort
- Visit Danebury Iron Age Hill Fort Local Nature Reserve in Hampshire and download a "story walk" to complete around the site
- Castell Henllys is an important Iron Age archaeological site in north Pembrokeshire, Wales
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How to Make a Model Celtic Roundhouse
Who knew making a model Celtic roundhouse could be so easy?
As our year studying Ancient History draws to a close, we’ve returned – for the first time since we looked at Stonehenge – to the ancient peoples who lived in our part of the world: the Celts.
I like to use living books as much as possible, but I didn’t find many on the Celts suitable for younger children, so I decided to go hands-on instead.
We only loosely followed the book instructions, partly because I’m not very good at following instructions (or even reading them – ahem), and partly because the dowel rods I ordered online took several weeks to arrive. (Big J later told me I could have picked some up at the local DIY store; I have much to learn about hands-on project supplies.)
What you need for your model Celtic roundhouse
- A long strip of card (for the walls of the house)
- Straw (available from pet shops as pet bedding)
- Plasticine (for the walls). I found this animators’ plasticine alternative very cheaply on Amazon
- A large, thick piece of card for the roof
How to Construct the Roundhouse
1. Cover the long strip of cardboard (wall) with a thin layer of plasticine.
2. Press scraps of straw into the walls. (I forgot to get a photo of this.)
3. Stand the wall up in a circle shape, leaving a gap for the doorway. You might want to use tape or glue to attach it to a base to help it stand up. (The photo below was taken before pressing the straw into the walls.)
4. Cut out a cardboard circle for the roof. Make it into a cone shape that overhangs the walls.
5. Now for the messy bit. Cover the roof with straw, using glue to stick it on. The picture in our book showed long neat strands of straw coming together in an orderly thatch. I used our guinea pigs’ bedding, which gave a slightly different effect! But as I told C and J, the Celts used whatever materials were available locally to build their houses. 😉
Our Celtic Roundhouse may not be the prettiest ever, but we were pleased with it. We had so much fun working on it together, and it enhanced our later visit to Butser Celtic Farm .
I’ve been wanting to do more hands-on projects as part of our homeschool. They’re memorable and fun, and this is the age to do them (my kids are 7 and 8). My lack of practicality – combined with perfectionist tendencies – has held me back in the past, so I was very pleased that we got round to making our roundhouse!
Have you made a model Celtic Roundhouse? I’d love to hear how you got on. 🙂
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This was very helpful for my daughter and myself in helping us make a model roundhouse. Thank you .
I’m so glad you found it useful, Emma. I hope you had fun making your model. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
this has been such a help for my son’s celtic project thank you
I’m so pleased to have helped, thank you for stopping to comment, Dionne. (Sorry, I missed your comment before.)
Oh this is neat!! Can I link this in to my History Hunting for the Ancient World? I think folks would find this useful and fun!!
Thanks, Kay! I’d love for you to link me up to your History Hunting for the Ancient World, thank you!
Hi I was wondering if you thought it work ok if you used clay rather than plastacine? I’ve got lots of clay and no plastacine!! Thanks Lucie
Hi Lucie, I’m sure clay would work fine, as long as it’s warm enough. I’m totally not an expert though, I must admit! In fact it’s possible the original instructions called for clay, but that I only had plasticene so I made the substitution! I hope you have fun making your roundhouse 🙂 Lucinda
Thank you for this simple fun craft project.
I am 7 and currently studying Celts & Celtic round house in school.
I had fun making this.
I bet my teacher would be very impressed 🙂 _______________________________________
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Thank you very much for this. I must say it is quite easy to follow and the end result is fantastic.
I am not crafty, this simple guide enabled her to do it by herself 🙂
Great idea and much better than other sites found.
Hello and thank you both so much for your kind comments!
We tend to find it much easier to follow photos and (simple!) instructions from real-life families’ experiences, compared with instructions from a book, so comments like yours make my day.
I appreciate you taking the time to write 🙂 Enjoy the rest of your study of the Celts!
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We made the round house today for my 9 year olds homework. Thank you so much, we had a lot of fun doing it and it looks great
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment, Katie. I’m glad you enjoyed making your round house. 🙂 (Apologies for the delay replying, we’re in Spain for the month with intermittent wifi!)
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Thanks for letting me know, I see what you mean. I’ll try and sort it!
That’s lovely to hear, Soraia – thank you so much for stopping by, I appreciate it!
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Do you think mud would work instead of plasticine or clay? We intend to do this model project for a school project.
Mindy, I don’t know. It might be a bit more fiddly than using plasticine, but I think you could definitely give it a try! I’d love to hear how it goes… 🙂
fine, good and cool but what do you do if you dont have enough plasticine and you dont have time to buy one give me other options except from clay and paper mache
Demilade, I’m afraid I’m not enough of an expert enough crafter to be able to suggest alternatives. Good luck with your project though!
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Just made one with my son for his school project. It looks amazing, we got some moss and flint stones and added them to the outside. Thank you so much for recommending the pastersine. I was worried there wouldn’t be enough but had plenty left over to make a person and a fire ?
is there any tutorial to made it?
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Celtic Round Houses. The Celtic tribes lived in scattered villages. They lived in round houses with thatched roofs of straw or heather.The walls of their houses were made from local material. Houses in the south tended to be made from wattle (woven wood) and daub (straw and mud) as there was an ample supply of wood from the forests.
The Celts famously had round houses, with the roof being made of straw in the shape of a cone. The walls of the houses were usually made of mud. A traditional Celtic roundhouse | Some Interesting Facts. As you can see in the house above, there is a hole at the top of the roof. This is because Celtic houses usually had a fire going in the middle ...
From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. There were many groups (tribes) of Celts, speaking a vaguely common language. The word Celt comes from the Greek word, Keltoi, which means barbarians and is properly pronounced as "Kelt". No-one called the people living in Britain during the ...
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Our Celtic Roundhouse Worksheet is a brilliant resource for teaching First Level CfE learners about how and where the Ancient Celts lived. The resource features an informative fact sheet complete with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations that will be sure to delight and fascinate your class. Alongside this fact sheet, there are two separate worksheets that ask learners to draw their own ...
How to Construct the Roundhouse. 1. Cover the long strip of cardboard (wall) with a thin layer of plasticine. 2. Press scraps of straw into the walls. (I forgot to get a photo of this.) 3. Stand the wall up in a circle shape, leaving a gap for the doorway. You might want to use tape or glue to attach it to a base to help it stand up.
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In the south-east Roman style country homes known as villas were established. In the north and west of Britain, few villas have been found. Not all Romans lived in villas. The majority of people living in the country lived in houses in the style of the celtic houses. These houses were usually round and made of timber and thatched.