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Ancient European Celtic Tribe of the Danube Bronze Bracelet circa 200-100 B.C.
28.03 grams 5.3 x 4.0 x 0.6 centimeters
Authentic ancient Celtic bracelet from circa 200-100 B.C.
core Hallstatt territory, by the 6th century BC
The earliest undisputed direct examples of a Celtic language are the Lepontic inscriptions, beginning in the 6th century BC
Insular Celtic is attested beginning around the 4th century through ogham inscriptions , although it was clearly being spoken much earlier
Celtic literary tradition begins with Old Irish texts around the 8th century
Coherent texts of Early Irish literature , such as the Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), survive in 12th-century recensions
By the 6th century, however, the Continental Celtic languages were no longer in wide use
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