ABSTRACT
WE have come to the neighbourhood of the year 300 B.C. At this date, the development of the civilization of La Tène takes a turn which has long been noted by archæologists, who have marked it by a new period, La Tène II. We shall again see, all round the fringes of the Celtic world, movements similar to those which in the sixth century took the Celts to the British Isles, Spain, and Italy, and at the end of the fifth took them to Provence, Italy, the Danube valley, and again to Britain. We shall see them spreading and wandering about in the East, establishing themselves strongly in the valley of the Danube ; new bands descending on Italy and Spain, and others reaching Britain and Ireland. A new group of Celtic tribes takes part in those expeditions or directs them.
