How the Celts came to Britain; Druids, ancient skulls and the birth of archaeology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0752433393

How the Celts came to Britain; Druids, ancient skulls and the birth of archaeology.

Morse, Michael A.

Tempus Publishing

222 pages

$40.00

Paperback

D70

The narrative of the Celts in Britain has accommodated a number of substantial changes in the last two hundred years. At the beginning of that period the idea that Celts populated pre-Roman Britain was only a strange notion; we kno...

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