ABSTRACT
The Iron Age lasted between c. 700 bc and the major Roman invasion of ad 43. The Iron Age is linked to the Celtic culture as Celtic peoples and ideas flowed into Britain from the Continent. It is during the last centuries of the Iron Age that the names of tribes and people emerge through the writings of Greek and Roman authors. The tribes themselves were often coalitions of smaller tribes politically bound together. The tribes nearest the Continent gradually became romanised as Roman rule became established in Gaul. It was the southern tribes that offered least resistence to Roman invasion and settlement.
