A Pocket Guide: Celtic Wales

In A Pocket Guide: Celtic Wales, Miranda Green and Ray Howell provide a wide-ranging and accessible introduction to a rich and complex phase of Wales’s past as they examine the archaeological and historical evidence for settlement in Wales from about 700 B.C. to AD 1000, a period which has long been labeled as “Celtic.” This well-illustrated book puts Celtic Wales in its European context and contributes to current debates on Celticity and ethnic identity. It also examines the unity and diversity of Celtic Wales from Iron Age settlement and Roman occupation through the early Christian and medieval periods, exploring topics such as tribal identity, economy and trade, art and religion, the interaction between Celtic and Roman Wales, and early medieval myths.

Miranda Aldhouse-Green is professor emeritus at Cardiff University. She has lectured at academic institutions including the Smithsonian Institution and the Universities of Toronto, Melbourne, Utrecht, and Umeå.

Miranda Aldhouse-Green is Professor of Archaeology at University of Wales Newport. Her many books include Animals in Celtic Life and Myth, Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins and Mothers, Dying for the Gods, and, most recently, An Archaeology of Images. Until recently she was archaeology editor of Studia Celtica.

Ray Howell is Reader in History and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Wales Newport. He has directed archaeological excavations on Iron Age, Roman and medieval sites in Gwent and has published widely on the history and archaeology of Wales. He is co-author with Miranda Aldhouse-Green of A Pocket Guide: Celtic Wales.