What Is The Neck Ribbon Of The Scottish Rite Legion Of Merit?

Ah, I love this stuff so much. Before the Romans even set foot on British soil, there was over 1,200 years of history. Kingdoms and battles and lovers and betrayels. All of it. I wish the Celts wrote down or documented these, but we have awesome artefacts like hillforts and hoards. And then we have standing stones like Stonehenge which was 2,000 years before the Celts even stepped onto Britain!

This documentary did a fantastic job of coherently linking the ancient continental celts with the Britons that descended from them, leading up to the clashes with the Anglo-Saxons which transitions somewhat neatly into the Normans and modern times. And it was even a little cheekier than normal. Combined with the other long-format documentary on the continental Celts, this is the most comprehensive history I’ve ever seen of the people who helped shape Rome and were the forefathers of the people who became the Irish. You have my deepest thanks for your efforts here.

Love to hear about the ancient history of my home, I have lived in Ramsgate all my life and Pegwell Bay today is a well preserved nature reserve for nesting birds. It’s a lovely place to go for a walk just don’t hit the nature reserve. To think that 2100 years ago it was the site of Roman Eagles landing on the shore of Britain to now being the well protected site for Turtle Doves and other nesting birds strikes a stark contrast. Thank you for this excellent article. There is the Replica Hugin Viking Longboat about half a mile up the coast from Pegwell Bay in Cliffsend which was gifted by the Danish in 1949 to commemorate 1500 years since the Anglo-Saxon invasion and there is a sign near it saying Kent Welcomes Viking Invaders as a dual historical reference. As well, the town of Ramsgate is the site where St Augustine brought Christianity to the British Isles. Our little corner of the country is steep with important pivotal national history but we scarcely advertise it. Hopefully that will change in years to come.

English is an interesting language and reflects all the conquests described in this article. Modern English is based on the Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons, but also include elements of the original Celtic Britons, Latin from the Roman conquest, Danish from the Viking invasions, and French from the Norman conquest.

I just got my mind blown. Buddha was born ~550BC in Nepal and if the Hallstatt D age is correct at 600 BC that means these two events were contemporary. Furthermore while the British isles were being populated by ancient Celts Sri Lanka was being populated by ancestors Bengal or then Magadh region. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY WILD!!

I’ve lived here, in Colchester, for decades mate. We have an enormous amount of Roman artifacts, buildings and actually, there are quite a lot of sections of the Roman wall and gateways which surround the town. The Norman Castle, which is the largest in Europe by the way, is built on top of the older Roman structure which had the famous temple that burnt down. Oh, and lastly……… there’s also a lot of roads in numerous areas of the town which are named after the Iceni tribe, our warrior Queen etc and then there’s even more Roman themed roads as well.

For a spectacular fictionalised version of the decline of the celts and the rise of the Saxons, see Bernard Cornwall’s The Warlord Chronicles… This trilogy tells a grounded (non-magical) version of the Arthur legend, as closely as possible to how it might have happened. Highly recommended, and the author cites this as his personal favourite of his novels.

To be fair, the “games” of the Romans clearly could also be interpreted as a form of human sacrifice and likely derived from such. I wonder if Cesar and other authors on the matter intended those practices to be interpreted as savage and alien or if by following the “noble savage” trope wanted to indicate that those barbarians were not so different to Romans after all.

Stonehenge was NOT built by the Beaker Culture as was shown in this article but by descendants of the Neolithic Anatolian Farmers whose culture preceded the Beaker’s. Those people leave only about a 10% genetic admixture in modern populations of the British Isles and as such cannot claim to be the direct descendants of those who built stonehenge and the other megaliths. However since we live in a world shaped by stonehenge and its culture bearers we can all benefit from learning about them.

Ireland is not and never was a constituent part of Britain, geographically, culturally, politically or genetically. The Irish, ( before the plantations starting c.1600)be they Gaels or otherwise were not Britons. It’s a shame a more inclusive nomenclature for the collective islands and it’s related peoples hasn’t been used in what is otherwise an excellent article.

thanks for teaching the world about my ancient British ancestors culture and history yes many things we know about the ancients comes from roman documents as celts didn’t write history or events those were passed through story’s and songs modern druids still exist in the British Iles today hosting traditional ancestor ritual’s but these are small on scale the modern druids host events on the Celtic holidays of summer, solstice winter, solstice and the Celtic new year Samhain

7:11 It’s worth considering new anthropological and archeological finding concerning the “stone age” inhabitants of England. David Graeber and David Wengrow (The Dawn of Everything 2021) discuss some of the very interesting social organizations that these new findings seem to reveal about the peoples of the British isles at this point in history. They posit that these societies often shifted between nomadic and agrarian ways of living depending on the time of the year, which translated into different sociopolitical organizations in accordance with the seasons. Found it interesting and thought I should share!

Actually, the Frisians, Saxons and some Belgian tribes, just from my memory, were also reported by the Romans to apply blue dye before battle. it wasnt just the Britons. im pretty sure it was mentioned in De Bello Gallico by Caesar, and if not there, by other Roman authors. And that isnt even mentioning the Basques.

None of this recent theory of Celtic origins explains the people discovered by Louis D. L’Amor in Tibet. A large tribe of red-haired, nomadic, Gaelic-speaking people who disappeared in the early 20th century before the communist takeover of the plateau. My theory is that the Proto-Celtic people began in Asia and expanded in all directions. They moved into the Greek peninsula displacing the Minoan civilization and became the ancient Greeks, moved into Northern Italy and Western Europe establishing tribal settlements and crossed the website to take over the island of Brittan. From Brittan the crossed to Erin where the quickly became the dominant culture.

“King Arthur” was a Scot. The real guy behind the legend was Artur MacAedan, King of Mannan, and both Camelot, and the “Round Table” were just outside modern-day Falkirk where. At that point, Falkirk Council built over the site of the fortress and demolished the round Roman temple on the north bank of the Carron river. they remained until the 1930’s. Both were well photographed and recorded. Camelot was of course, the old Roman fortress, which was large and well fortified, being the anchor at one end of the Antonine Wall and guarding the largest Roman port in Scotland. There is only, one place in Britain where, he could have been fighting “Picts and Saxons”, as the tale records, and that place is Central Scotland. The legend even opens with the words, “Long ago, in the lands of Lothian”. Lothian is of course, the eastern side of Central Scotland, including Falkirk. The English stole the tale and propagandised it, long ago, but we Scots, still remember our greatest hero. Btw, Scottish Gaelic was deliberately suppressed by the English. In 1900, the most common language in our largest city, Glasgow, was Gaelic. By the 1960’s it was almost gone completely, as the English refused to conduct any kind of official business in Gaelic and would only teach English in schools, punishing children for speaking their own native tongue. The term “Celtic” comes from the ancient Greeks. When they founded the settlement of Massalia, – modern-day Marseilles, – they referred to the peoples to the north of them as “Celtoi”.

I don’t really get the Atlantic Celts theory. Linguists already know the celts are Indo-European, meaning they pretty much know we came from the east sooner or later. There might be an explanation I haven’t heard, if anyone knows pls let me know ( : My guess if the theory is true is that either proto-celtic Indo-Europeans settled the Atlantic coast before central Europe and France through sea lanes, or that the celts where previously a non-Indo-European people that only later adopted an Indo-European language for whatever reason. Either way, no one, not even the Basques are truly native to Europe if we go back far enough, so I don’t think the theory is necessary to legitimise Celtic identity.

Something you showed as raiders of roman Albion, but not as invaders: -Though it is impossible to know exact numbers and migration patterns, research has indicated that many now Dutch Frisians were part of the wave of ethnic groups to colonize areas of present-day England alongside the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, starting from around the fifth century when Frisians arrived along the coastline of Kent. Frisians principally settled in modern-day Kent, East Anglia, the East Midlands, North East England, and Yorkshire. Across these areas, evidence of their settlement includes place names of Frisian origin, such as Frizinghall in Bradford and Frieston in Lincolnshire. Of course, Frisians would have been lumped with Saxons, both had blonde hair and blue eyes and spoke a germanic language…..

29:51 Map feature: there appears to be a sizeable lake just to the south-west of Venonae (Venonis), in the present-day West Midlands, which seems to have disappeared by the time we get to 1:39:30. Was there a lake there, and if so, what happened to it? Or is it just a glitch in the graphics software?

My last name is Nichols and my family came to America before the revolution. They ended up making it big and then losing it all in the depression. It’s so fascinating learning essentially my origin story – like someone who literally shares my DNA might of been someone in these stories. Funny enough, 50% of US DNA can be traced back pre revolution so the story of the isles is the origin story of America. Great article as always – gonna have to watch this twenty times to soak up all the information (which is a great thing)