Welsh History Podcast

The 3rd and 4th centuries are times of prosperity and wealth in Britain, at least for some parts. With the rise of local usurpers and the Diocletian reforms Roman Britain returns to peace just in time for Christianity to arrive.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we move into the second century of Roman rule what was life like for a Roman Britain at various levels? We talk about it on this episode.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After 50 years of constant source information we are now largely in the dark again. But Roman Britain is now home of the usurpers seeking to claim the Roman Empire.   Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wales is now a part of Roman Britain what is the outcome and how does this change the landscape and the way the British Perceive themselves.   Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Southern England is now firmly in the hands of the Romans, the Iceni no longer a client kingdom but even as the soft hand used for most of the former British tribes the Silures and Brigantes once again raise trouble.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the war against the Druids in Anglesey and stealing land of the Iceni leads to a massive uprising which destroys two communities and ends major resistance in Roman Britain.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Silures of South Wales, confronted with the reality of Roman dominion, fight as hard as anyone else to remain free. They will hold out for the longest of the Welsh tribes.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the Romans advancing the Welsh being their resistance as King Caractacus begins to build opposition within the Welsh tribes on the borders with Roman Britain.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we talk about what Claudius did when he "won" the war. The fact that it took over 30 years to win Roman Britain notwithstanding.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ave and welcome to the Pax Romana tribes of Britannia. Claudius and the boys arrive to a rather warm reception as long as you avoid the noisy neighbours to the North and West. Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the arrival of the Romans to Britain trade between Romanized Gaul and Britain picks up as the South Eastern British tribes start to crave the advantages of Roman culture. Wales however likely only felt the problems of Roman contact.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we talk about one of the biggest mysteries of Iron Age Britain. The Druids.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Julius Caesar decides it is time to cross the English Channel as the Romans arrive in Britain for the first time and the trade and cultural influence of Britain by the Romans begins in earnest.  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk about the Tribes in Wales, and give some Roman background.  Welsh Tribes pre-Roman Demetae (Pembrokeshire) Silures (South Wales Ordovices (Mid Wales) Deceangli (North Wales)  Richard Madgwick and Jacqui Mulville, Feasting on fore-limbs: conspicuous consumption and identity in later prehistoric Britain, Antiquity, Volume 89, Issue 345, June 2015, pp 629-644.  H. H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome 133 BC to AD68, 5th Edition, Routledge: London, 2000, 112-130. Christopher S. Mackay, Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004, 139-158. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finally we get a historical picture of the British Isle but for the Greeks it was a place of Myth for Rome one of untold wealth and finally the Iron Age is about to clash with the Roman Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Iron Age is in high gear and the borderlands of Britain are being divided by they developing hillforts. Rodden, Judith. American Anthropologist, New Series, 68, no. 6 (1966): 1572. Hill, J. D. "The Pre-Roman Iron Age in Britain and Ireland (ca. 800 B.C. to A.D. 100): An Overview." Journal of World Prehistory 9, no. 1 (1995): 47-98 Bell, Martin, and Neumann Heike. "Prehistoric Intertidal Archaeology and Environments in the Severn Estuary, Wales." World Archaeology 29, no. 1 (1997): 95-113. I. M. Stead (1982). The Cerrig-y-Drudion ‘Hanging Bowl’. The Antiquaries Journal, 62, pp 221-234. Thurston, Tina. "Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?" Journal of Archaeological Research 17, no. 4 (2009): 347-423. Eric A. Powell. Hillforts of the Iron Age, Archaeology Magazine, October 7, 2015, http://www.archaeology.org/issues/196-1511/letter-from/3760-letter-from-wales-iron-age-hillforts Accessed June 26, 2016. Ali Vowles, The Saltford Carthaginan Coin, BBC Points West, 13 Apri

One of biggest arguments about the iron age in Britain is about whether there were or were not Celts.We are going to talk about it before we can enter the iron age. Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we look at burial practices as well as some good luck practices which appear to have started in the Bronze age and carry on today. Resources Pearson, Mike et al. 2015. "Craig Rhos-y-felin: a Welsh bluestone megalith quarry for Stonehenge." Antiquity 89, no. 348: 1331-1352. Hall, Mark, and Joanna Bruck. 2010. "Women, Death and Social Change in the British Bronze Age Comments by Mark Hall." Norwegian Archaeological Review43, no. 1: 77-85. ____, Homo neanderthaenis, What does it mean to be human, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-neanderthalensis Accessed June 7, 2016. Owoc, Mary Ann, Aspects of Ceremonial Burial in the Bronze Age of South-west Britain, Department of Archaeology and Prehistory University of Sheffield, http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3510/1/341799_vol1.pdf Accessed June 7, 2016. Bronze age urn found in Rhiw http://www.rhiw.com/hanes_pages/rhiw_urn/urn_rhiw.jpg Accessed June 7, 2016 Schlee, Duncan, The excavation of

In this episode we discuss how stratification made for some interesting bronze age burials. Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week it is all about turning stone into bronze as we enter the Bronze Age. Please be sure to give us a rating and review on iTunes and Google Play.  You can talk to us at welshhistorypodcast@gmail.com  Music: Celtic Impulse - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100297 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices