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Life • Society Celtic society was hierarchical. At the top was a class of nobles headed by a king or chieftain. • Homes The Celts lived in round houses. They were built around a central pole with horizontal poles radiating outwards from it. They rested on vertical poles. Walls were of wattle and daub and roofs were thatched. Around the walls inside the huts were benches, which also doubled up as beds. • Clothes a) Celtic men wore tunics and trousers and women wore long dresses and mantles and also bronze mirrors. b) Women wore belts around their dresses made of cloth, leather or bronze rings. c) Celtic men soaked their hair in limewater to make it stand up straight. d) Wealthy Celts wore gold ornaments around their necks called torcs or torques. • Games For amusement Celts played board games. They were also very fond of music and played flutes and lyres. In good weather they held horse or chariot races. The Celts also enjoyed hunting wild boar on horseback. Religion The Celts had priests called Druids. They were polytheists (they worshipped many gods and goddesses). Heritage • Some thousands of years ago there was a time when all of the Europe was Celtic. England was ruled entirely by Celts. Eventually the Romans, Angles and Saxons came and pushed the Celts to the north and west. Celtic people have heritage of varieties of celtic Celtic tattoo design • Celtic Knot • Coruna • Spiral Early Anglo Saxon Age 500 - 800 A brief moment in early an ...
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