British history XIII

Iron Age

Pytheas of Massilia circumnavigates Britain 330 - 320 BC

From 330 BC, Pytheas of Massilia, (now Marseilles), thought to be a Greek scholar and sailor, circumnavigated Britain. In his accounts, he described the inhabitants as skilled wheat farmers, usually peaceable, but formidable in war, when they used horse-drawn chariots (as Julius Caesar was to learn 250 years later). Pytheas described the Cornish tin trade with the Mediterranean and St Michael's Mount in Cornwall. Pytheas called the people he encountered 'Celts'.

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