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The Iron age and the Celts
- Houses and settlements
- Ring Forts
- enclosed by ditches and earthen banks
- round in shape
- souterrains were places were food could be stored and
could be used as an escape passage from predators
- Promontory forts
- built on a Cliffside or headland most of them were
on the south or the west coasts of ireland
- Hill forts
- built on a prominent site on a hill
- similar to ring forts but much larger
- ceremonial or religious purposes
- Celtic society
- Ri
- warriors, aos dana, nobles
- commoners
- slaves
- Writing
- on ogham stones
- warriors and farmers
- southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Iron age replaced the Bronze age