07-21-2010, 02:15 PM
Ron,
The Celts were a horse culture. Most of the equipment and tactics we've described go back to the Celts but the problem with the Celtic parties was their administration. In a tribal setting of constant civil war there is no way an elite cavalry force could be maintained and that means that as soon as the Roman party was dead and gone order and unity fell apart and the Saxons picked the kingdoms off, one by one. A few coallitions are all that saved Wales. Most famously the one under Tewdric at Tintern.
The Celts were a horse culture. Most of the equipment and tactics we've described go back to the Celts but the problem with the Celtic parties was their administration. In a tribal setting of constant civil war there is no way an elite cavalry force could be maintained and that means that as soon as the Roman party was dead and gone order and unity fell apart and the Saxons picked the kingdoms off, one by one. A few coallitions are all that saved Wales. Most famously the one under Tewdric at Tintern.
Nicholas
