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lhopki01 on Aug 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Roman Britain in Black and White

Celts are a fabricated identity. The modern representation arose out of trying to have a pan European ancestry and identity in the 19th century.

ng12 on Aug 5, 2017 | [–]

Do you have a source for this? Who exactly were the Romans conquering if not Celtic Britons?

Bakary on Aug 5, 2017 | | [–]

What about the Celtic languages?

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