See also: Castro culture, Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, Prehistoric Iberia, Hispania, Lusitania, Gallaecia, Celtici, and Vettones Both the Association Members and the Celtic Directorate expressed admiration for the Bonnybridge bus plaque. The Directors indicated that they would like to adopt it for their own. After due consultation and consideration, Celtic supporters either at club or association level responded to this ‘request’ and the plaque design was gifted to Celtic F.C. without any thought of 1% of any future royalties. H. D. Rankin, Celts and the classical world . Routledge. 1998. pp.1–2. ISBN 978-0-415-15090-3 . Retrieved 7 June 2010. Flowers: Flowers such as roses, lilies, and thistles are often used to symbolise love, purity, and strength.

The native peoples under Roman rule became Romanised and keen to adopt Roman ways. Celtic art had already incorporated classical influences, and surviving Gallo-Roman pieces interpret classical subjects or keep faith with old traditions despite a Roman overlay. [ citation needed]Very few reliable sources exist regarding Celtic views on gender roles, though some archaeological evidence suggests their views may have differed from those of the Greco-Roman world, which tended to be less egalitarian. [149] [150] Some Iron Age burials in northeastern Gaul suggest women may have had roles in warfare during the earlier La Tène period, but the evidence is far from conclusive. [151] Celtic individuals buried with both female jewellery and weaponry have been found, such as the Vix Grave in northeastern Gaul, and there are questions about the gender of some individuals buried with weaponry. However, it has been suggested that the weapons indicate high social rank rather than masculinity. [152] a b c d e Patterson, N.; Isakov, M.; Booth, T. (2021). "Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age". Nature. 601 (7894): 588–594. Bibcode: 2022Natur.601..588P. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4. PMC 8889665. PMID 34937049. S2CID 245509501. Cunliffe, Barry (2003). The Celts – A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. p.37. ISBN 978-0-19-280418-1. Burillo Mozota, Francisco (2005). "Celtiberians: Problems and Debates". E-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies. 6: 411–80. Archived from the original on 14 February 2009 . Retrieved 18 May 2009. International Journal of Modern Anthropology Int. J. Mod. Anthrop. (2017) 10: 50–72 HLA Genes in Atlantic Celtic populations: Are Celts Iberians? Available online at: www.ata.org.tn

Martiniano, Rui; etal. (19 January 2016). "Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons". Nature Communications. Nature Research. 7 (10326): 10326. Bibcode: 2016NatCo...710326M. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10326. PMC 4735653. PMID 26783717. Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference It's upset a lot of people': outrage after tidy-up of Scottish sacred well". The Guardian. 30 January 2022. Archived from the original on 3 March 2022 . Retrieved 20 May 2022. Tierney, J. J. (1960). The Celtic Ethnography of Posidonius, PRIA 60 C. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. pp.1.89–275. The Castro Culture in northwestern Iberia, modern day Galicia and Northern Portugal. [88] Its high degree of continuity, from the Late Bronze Age, makes it difficult to support that the introduction of Celtic elements was due to the same process of Celticisation of the western Iberia, from the nucleus area of Celtiberia. Two typical elements are the sauna baths with monumental entrances, and the "Gallaecian Warriors", stone sculptures built in the 1st century AD. A large group of Latin inscriptions contain linguistic features that are clearly Celtic, while others are similar to those found in the non-Celtic Lusitanian language. [87]

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The Celts were often in conflict with the Romans, such as in the Roman–Gallic wars, the Celtiberian Wars, the conquest of Gaul and conquest of Britain. By the 1st century AD, most Celtic territories had become part of the Roman Empire. By c. 500, due to Romanisation and the migration of Germanic tribes, Celtic culture had mostly become restricted to Ireland, western and northern Britain, and Brittany. Between the 5th and 8th centuries, the Celtic-speaking communities in these Atlantic regions emerged as a reasonably cohesive cultural entity. They had a common linguistic, religious and artistic heritage that distinguished them from surrounding cultures. [19] Like other European Iron Age societies, the Celts practised a polytheistic religion. [181] Celtic religion varied by region and over time, but had "broad structural similarities", [181] and there was "a basic religious homogeneity" among the Celtic peoples. [182] Because the ancient Celts did not have writing, evidence about their religion is gleaned from archaeology, Greco-Roman accounts, and literature from the early Christian period. [183] Little is known of family structure among the Celts. Patterns of settlement varied from decentralised to urban. The popular stereotype of non-urbanised societies settled in hillforts and duns, [137] drawn from Britain and Ireland (there are about 3,000 hill forts known in Britain) [138] contrasts with the urban settlements present in the core Hallstatt and La Tène areas, with the many significant oppida of Gaul late in the first millennium BC, and with the towns of Gallia Cisalpina. [ citation needed]