Originally Posted by
O'Callaghan
As to whether the English are celts, the oldest known inhabitants of England were the Britons, who of course were Brythonic Celts by definition.
Everything I've ever read says that the celts didn't get to britain until around the middle of the 1st millenium BC, which is when celtic type tools and such began to appear.
There were people in Britain for thousands of years before that. They're the ones who built the stone circles. Contrary to popular belief, the celts didn't build the stone circles; they found them, thought they were cool, and used them for their own purposes.
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