Religion

The Christian faith was well-established in Celtic Britain around the 4th century AD. When the Saxons and the Germanic people invaded the country of Britain, they drove most of the Celtic Christians into Wales and Cornwall. At the same time St. Patrick and other British missionaries founded a new church in Ireland, which was the center of Celtic Christianity. The Irish church encouraged Irish monks and priests to pray there. Celtic Christianity was weakened in Ireland cause when the Vikings invaded in around the 9th and 10th centuries. The Celts were Christians they lived in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland they traveled around the place finding themselves in different parts of Europe. The Celtic Christians were not wanted by a lot of people such as the Vikings and other groups.

See the link to learn more about early Celtic deities and mythology.

The Celts sent their dead to the After World, well equipt to eat and drink. The also buried their dead in tombs.

Now a Celtic Chieftain's grave dated around the sixth century BC has been found. This was to be the richest tomb that has ever been found in Germany. In the northwest of the tomb there was a wooden stand that was collapsed and there was a huge round bronze kettle or caldron, big enough to hold about 400 liters of liquid. The tomb also contained ta drinking bowl of gold and powdery brown mass, the dried remains of the mead (a honey- based fermented drink). Across the whole of the chamber there was a death couch, nine plates and three platters of bronze, together with slaughtering and carving tools which were stacked on a most remarkable four-wheeled wagon, a kind of Celtic tea cart adorned with bronze chairs and figurines. The walls and the ceiling was covered with fabrics, iron clasps and bronze brooches held together by hangings. Fortunately, bacteria-killing oxides from the metal artifacts had helped to preserve the fabrics, making the grave one of richest in the world. There were many more artifacts found in the tomb, for the archaeologists that dug the site this was one of the most remarkable and most, exciting site that they had ever found. Not that many tombs of the Celtic period have been found; let alone with all the contents in the tomb so well preserved. It was an archaeologist's dream to find something like this which belonged to the Celts.

The Celts believed in After life and the After World and like the Egyptians, they buried a lot of personal belongings in the tomb. The Celts were into art and making things by hand on and they found a lot of things like these in the tomb and along the walls of it.