Shire Books, 1986

Celtic peoples occupied much of central Europe from around the 6th century BC and later spread into areas of Ital, Greece, eastern and western Europe, as far as Asia Minor and North Africa. By the later 2nd century BC, however, they were on the retreat in the face of the expanding Roman Empire; the British Isles became one of the last beleaguered centres of Celtic culture unti land beyond the Claudian invasion of AD 43. This book examines the predominantly warrior and aristocractic art of the British and Irish Celts from the 4th century BC till the Roman conquest...