1. The Celts: 500 BC

2. Artifacts

5. Society Tanaiste Tuath/Kingdom Derbhfine Nobles Farmers/ SlavesRi
Derbhfine
Nobles
Warriors
Aos Dana
Farmers/
Slaves
Tanaiste
Tuath/Kingdom

6. Warriors Fight for the clan
Go into battle without armour (which they consider cowardly)
They also lead the cattle raids

7. Aos Dana: Skilled People
Craftsmen / smiths / stone masons and carpenters
Bards / recite poems and sing songs
Fili / Poets
Druids / Priests
Brehons / Judges

8. Whose job was it to recite poems about Celtic Legends?

9. Craftsmen Carpenters Houses Fences Boats Wooden Ploughs Chariots
Wooden plates and bowls
Smiths
Axes
Sickles
Spades
Hammers
Swords
Spears
Arrow heads
Jewellery

10. Commoners / Peasants Farming Farmers rented land from nobles
Barley, wheat, but most importantly cattle
They ate porridge, bread, pork and drank milk and ale

11. Arts & Crafts
Smiths

12. Spirals, curved lines and florals.
Gold, Silver and Bronze and polished stones

13. What is this famous Celtic artifact called?

14. Primary Sources
The Greeks wrote that the Celts “love decoration. They wear ornaments, torcs around their necks and bracelets on their arms and wrists”.
Natalie found out that the Celts also used beads. Both men and women wore jewelry
Silver and gold jewelry was very desired and if you wore it, it showed you were very important

15. Stone Masons
Ogham Stones

16. Ogham Alphabet

17. Carpenters Houses Fences Boats Wooden Ploughs Chariots
Wooden plates and bowls

18. Buildings
Dun
Promontory forts
Ring forts or raths
Houses

20. Promontory fort
Defensive features of Celtic buildings

21. Ring Fort / Rath

24. Julius Caesar says
“Of the two important classes .... one consists of Druids, the other of knights[warriors]. The Druids are concerned with divine worship, the performance of sacrifices, public and private, and the Interpretation of ritual questions: a great number of young men gather about them for the sake of instruction and hold them in great honour.”

25. Religion Many deities Dagda is the main god Lug is the god of War
Brigid and Morrigan are goddesses
Deities live in wells, rivers and woods
The druid is the priest: sacrifices to the gods

26. Celtic Festivals
Samhain – November 1 when dead spirits visit the world of the living
Bealtaine – May 1 the festival to mark the beginning of summer
Imbolc – February 1 the festival of the goddess Brigid
Do you know these words in Irish?
What do they mean?