Celtic Timeline

620 BCE – 410 CE · 3 sites

All sites in this period

Continent Record

Northernmost Known Site in Europe

Hadrian's Wall

122 CE – 410 CE

Hadrian's Wall, built AD 122 at the Roman Empire's northern frontier in Britain, stretched 73 miles across the island and served as a military boundary until Roman withdrawal around AD 410.

RomanLate Antique

The Great Bath at Aquae Sulis (Bath), its lead lining original Roman work from the 1st century CE

Country Record

Longest Recorded History in United Kingdom

Bath (Aquae Sulis)

60 CE – 410 CE

A Roman sacred bathing complex built over Britain's only hot spring, dedicated to the goddess Sulis-Minerva and in continuous use for four centuries — its lead-lined Great Bath, gilded bronze head of Minerva, and remarkable cache of cursing tablets preserved intact.

RomanLate Antique

Reconstruction of the early Celtic Heuneburg with its mudbrick wall above the Danube, Germany

Country Record

Oldest City in Germany

Heuneburg

620 BCE – 450 BCE

A fortified early Celtic hilltop town above the upper Danube in southwestern Germany, often called the oldest city north of the Alps. Around 600 BCE its rulers raised a Mediterranean-style mudbrick wall found nowhere else north of the Alps, traded for Greek wine and pottery, and buried their dead with gold — and it may be the "Pyrene" named by the Greek historian Herodotus.

Iron Age