British Iron Age, pt. 2, Welsh Celtic settlement
Iron Age settlements of hut circles in hillforts, Wales, and the British Isles (Wikipedia links used). Image courtesy of Wiki Commons, attributed to Stephen Elwyn Roddick, Llynon Mill roundhouse reconstruction, Llanddeusant, Anglesey . The British Iron Age simply put was the beginning of mining iron in Great Britain. The new technologies of smelting metals into weapons were to help hunt prey and enable a new society of Celtic tribes to grow in Wales and the British Isles, this was similar to the European Iron Age too. At its earliest, 500 BC is generally the accepted timeframe for the start of the Iron Age in Anglesey, Wales after a late Bronze Age. The British Iron Age tribes were the nomadic Celtic peoples and it was their hunter-gatherer ancestors who had previously settled parts of Wales and had assembled Neolithic monuments such as megaliths on locations in some cases later used for Iron Age hillforts. Some areas were first settled at the end of th...