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There is a great story in the New Yorker about Roger Tomlin, the man who wrote the seminal work on deciphering the Roman wooden, lead, and wax tablets found in Britain. Tomlin is also an editor for the Roman Inscriptions of Britain online which focuses on Latin texts carved in stone.

This question has been asked several times so I thought it might be a good idea to post a little how to guide. Just having an account on tdbcelts.org forums is not enough to receive email when there is new content. If you log into the site, you can use a couple different methods to see what's new si...

I'm afraid that once you add the cost of plane fare, the cost would knock this off the list of possible venues for events but imagine how totally hatchet it would be to get langered in a (reconstructed) Irish ring fort! As the interpreter guide mentions you can rent the ring fort for a night (you re...

The Dancing Man. This is a reproduction of a Celtic Latene period silver quinar struck between 60 BC and 1 BC which depicts a dancing man holding a torc in one hand and a snake in the other surrounded by a circle of dots which might be pearls or jewels or stones or even eggs. A gold? quinarius had a...

Brogan showed his reproduction of one of the coins found in the Sedgeford Hoard. Minted somewhere around 60-50BC, the originals were approximately 60% gold, 30% silver, and 10% copper. The Sedgeford site is managed by SHARP . Read about the coins find on page 9 of this report . Brogan's version is b...

The Feast of Bridget was held in proper style again for the first time in many years. Gathering together in such a large hall with a huge kitchen and a separate common room for the feast was the perfect tonic against the dry cold of the winter months. The Clann was unanimous in the hope that we will...

Some of you may recognize the handle attachment of this bucket as Brogan has made a (very good) reproduction of it. From the British Museum Dated: 75 BC - 25 BC (circa) Excavated/Findspot: Aylesford (Europe,British Isles,England,Kent,Aylesford) Aylesford.jpg This wooden bucket (1886,1112.3-7) wrappe...

I don't know how I got to be this old and still thinking that there were such things as Vomitoriums in ancient Rome. This article explains the history of the myth of the Vomitorium; the genesis of the mis-application of the word to a room where Roman leaders would purge themselves.

Horslips actually has a cribnotes version of The Tain on their website. If you just want the main story its pretty good. I'm not sure who wrote it up, but the page its on also has the lyrics for that album which is nice to reference if you listen to it. http://www.horslips.ie/tain.html The Story One...

I'm listening to Hoslips today, and if you've never heard of this Irish celtic rock band from the '70s I'm not surprised but of interest to the Clann might be the following two concept albums they made: The Táin - based on the legend of the Táin Bó Cúailnge On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...