Virtual Tour of Briteiros

[Gil]

The "Citânia de Briteiros" is a fortified Iron Age settlement of large proportions, and one of the only oppida with a vast spolia of artefacts from the Iron Age, both celtiberian and "castrense".

http://citania.csarmento.uminho.pt/d...asp?language=2

[Menydh]

Manji, are you using here the term "Celtiberian" as it is sometimes used to mean Celts in Iberia, or to mean artifacts of Celtiberian origins proper?

The area of the Celtiberi was more to the East, but I've read that there might have been incursions of the Celtiberi further West.

[Gil]

Celtiberian in the sense of "celts" which were mixed with "iberians". The castrense culture was mainly of Iron Age iberian stock but alot of celtic artefact have been found to identify it has a stem from the celtiberian-proper branch.

Though there were a group of tribes usually identified only has "celtiberians" (Arevaci, Belli, Titti, and Lusones) the word itself, which describes a culture of iberian and celt origin can be applied to all cultures of the peninsula that had those characteristics.
The castrense culture was celtiberian in the sense that some major characteristics were of celtic introduction but the inhabitants must have been a blend of iberian and celtic types.

[Menydh]

I've put two other Castros, one in Galicia (Sta. Tecla) and another in Asturias (Coaño):

Celtic Castro of Santa Tegra (Galicia)
Celtic Castro of Coaña (Asturias)

Also, these maps show (1)the nuclear area of the Celtiberi, and (2)a detailed view of the tribes with their names: