ASPECTS OF BRITISH HISTORY
British Isles. The Celts1 had been arriving from Europe from the eighth century BC
onwards. The Celts began to control all the lowland areas of Britain and, with new
waves of settlers coming one after another, gradually spread all over Britain and the
other islands.
It seems that the Celts mixed with the Iberian peoples who were already there. It
is also possible that they drove many of the older inhabitants westwards into Wales,
Ireland and Scotland where they were eventually assimilated2.
Celtic Culture
The Celtic tribes continued the same kind of agriculture as the Bronze Age
people before them. But the use of iron technology and more advanced ploughing
methods made them highly successful farmers, the Celts used ox-drawn wheeled
ploughs and this meant that richer, heavier land could be farmed. Under the Celts
Britain became an important food producer. It now exported corn and animals, as
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