Most Celts of what is now the peninsula of Cornwall lived in villages (as also happened in neighbor

Taking advantage of their stay in those homes pra not know very well what infernal machinations, complete and send us this interesting article on our dear brother David Pandulleiro Snakes, in contrast to the profile of our Cornwall Galicia than in Britain, mainly in the historical aspects and social:
In this article we will analyze the cultural similarities between two people at first quite distant geographically, as might be Galician (the current inhabitants of Galicia during the Iron Age in the first millennium before our era), and the córnicos, manfrotto 3265 inhabitants of the peninsula Cornwall, England. This common pattern that we expose responds to commercial and cultural contacts between the peoples of the Iron Age, as communities were not isolated and without contact between them, and probably to a lesser manfrotto 3265 extent, manfrotto 3265 population movements. manfrotto 3265 Focus in the case of Cornwall, the English county where even the nineteenth century still spoke Cornish (Celtic language related to Welsh and Irish), and during exposure iránnos manfrotto 3265 surprising similarities rather than the notorious Nororeste Celtic culture of the Iberian Peninsula.
Most Celts of what is now the peninsula of Cornwall lived in villages (as also happened in neighboring Gaul), with a simple defense system, which could consist of a moat and a landfill (called in English "round" because of its shape loop), or on farms or settlements without defense. The most important settlements, and that could be the centers of power of the territory, are called "hillforts" (fortified towns in the hills), or "cliff manfrotto 3265 Castles" (castles on cliffs), and come to our match in some settlements importance, such as the Santa Tecla or Ribadumia.
Aerial view of a "hillfort" in which observe the walls, ditches and embankments (Castle An Dinas, Cornwall) was at the end of the Bronze Age (around manfrotto 3265 the 900-800 to XC) arise when the first hillforts, as happens in Galicia with Celtic culture, with the first buildings of the defensive that they are the first permanent settlements, which can be considered the first towns and villages. These defenses become more important in the middle of the Iron Age (s. V-IV. X. C), and consist of, just as in the case of settlements, one or more ditches and embankments (which could be culminated with a wall or fence ), surrounding a mountain peak the easily defensible.
Another type of settlement manfrotto 3265 and located along the cliffs (the "cliff Castles"), also found in neighboring Wales and Brittany, indicating cultural contacts between all these territories. The defensive system is equal to the "hillforts", but with the difference of being located in a place and have the natural defense of a cliff. The closest thing we can find in Galicia perhaps Baroña Castro, who also sits on a rocky outcrop that of the sea.
Note that some settlements and hillforts were not busy throughout the year, but had seasonal functions such as place of refuge in case of conflict or commercial enclave. In Cornwall, the evidence of the latter observed in "Castles cliff" accommodation not recommended in winter, in places very exposed to the wind, and that would be rather towns in summer, with the arrival of the good weather and as commercial enclave, to exchange products with Mediterranean people such as the Phoenicians (the case of cliff castle "The manfrotto 3265 Rump", on the coast north of the county, whose inhabitants still had besides boats to trade). If serving at a military conflict, this is evident in the existence of houses located along the "hillfort", but not within it. In Galicia, also some settlements were seasonal so busy at the time to seek pastures for cattle or as "port" to take from the fishing boats.
As discussed earlier, the reason for some of these towns the coast of Cornwall was the trade, taking advantage of the abundance in this county a very important mineral in antiquity: Tin (required, among other things, to make bronze). Thus, some of these coastal towns are ubicaron about beaches where boats foreign traders could park easily.
View of the peninsula where lies the "cliff castle" Head of Trevelgue This is the case of Trevelgue Head, and inhabited from the Neolithic and Bronze Age (5000 - 2000 a. XC), and where the excavations have brought to light iron objects , animal bones and mollusc shells.
It is precisely because of these economic resources to protect the time (trade routes, livestock production or metallurgical), which explains the construction of the defenses erected during the Iron Age, and a desire of its inhabitants to show a certain "status" , as