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Weapons - Armour - Camp Accoutrements

www.bronze-age-swords.com/index.htm   (Museum replica bronze age swords)
www.venetiancat.com/index.html   (Historical Reproduction pottery and fine art)
www.bowskin.com   (Custom bows, brain and smoke tan hides)
www.performancearmour.com (Custom battle-ready armour)
www.ironagearmoury.com   (custom historical reproductions for collectors and living history enthusiasts)
www.christianfletcher.com/Christian_Fletcher/Welcome.html   (Artistry in custom Swords and Scabbards)
www.historicalglassworks.com   (Historical glassworks)
www.templ.net/english/weapons-antiquity_and_early_middle_age.php (High quality swords)
http://www.history-revisited.com/home ( Reasonably priced historical reproductions, swords, helmets ect)

Adornments

www.urweg.com   (Museum Replica Celtic, Viking, Anglo-Saxon Jewelry)
www.replik-shop.de/index.php   (handcrafted ancient jewellery and archaeological replicas)
www.medievalwares.com   (Museum replica brooches ect)
www.hr-replikate.de   (quality replicas 1,500 B.C. to 1,500 A.D Germany)
www.replik-online.de/en/index.html   (Celtic iron age jewellery)

Textiles - Leather - Weaving Supplies

www.renaissancedyeing.com   (Naturally plant dyed yarn and threads)
www.harristweedshop.com/tweed-index.html   (Harris Tweed Fabric)
www.camillavalleyfarm.com (Weavers Supply, linen, cotton and wool yarns)
www.leatherunltd.com   (vegetable tanned hide and more)
www.siegelofca.com   (wholesale leather)
www.familyheirloomweavers.com   (weavers, custom orders)
www.georgeweil.com   (natural dyes, yarns)
www.classactfabrics.com/index.html   (Linen, Wool,  Silk)
www.royalwoodltd.com   ( Basket Weaving Supplies & Irish Waxed Linen Thread)
www.lin-net.com/English/Linnet_origin_Natural_Dyes_linen.html (Linen, natural dyes)
www.baltic-flax.com (Line fabrics. yarns, twines, fibres)
www.beyondfrance.co.uk/acatalog/Natural_Hungarian_Linen.html (Linen fabric homespun)
www.anta.co.uk/browse/Fabric_44_0_0_na.html (Wool and linen fabric)
www.smithfabrics.com (fabrics woven in Scotland)
http://www.anaperiodshoes.co.uk/prehistoric_shoes.htm (hand stitched prehistoric shoes)
www.europeantextiles.ca (European textiles, huge linen supplier, Hamilton ontario)

Museums

www.nms.ac.uk   (National Museums Scotland)
www.britishmuseum.org   (The British Museum)
www.museumwales.ac.uk   (National Museum of Wales)
www.museen-bern.ch/5.html?&L=2   (Historic Museum of Bern)
www3.hants.gov.uk/museum-of-the-ironage   (Andover Museum of the Iron Age)
www.metmuseum.org   (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

www.museum.ie/en/homepage.aspx   (National Museum of Ireland)
www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/roman   (National Roman Legion Museum Wales)
www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/  (Wiltshire Heritage Museum - Museum Gallery Library)

Historical sites of Europe

www.flagfen.com   (Britain's Bronze Age Centre - Peterborough)
www.butser.org.uk   (Buster Ancient Farm)
www.pembrokeshirecoast.org.uk/default.asp?PID=397   (Castell Henllys Iron Age Hillfort)

Metal and Wood

www.peaveymfg.com/dowels.htm (Dowels and Squares are available in different sizes of hardwood)
www.anchorbronze.com   (Bronze)
www.atlasbronze.com   (Bronze Sheet, Rod, Tubing, Bar stock, Solids, Squares)
www.mcmaster.com/#   (tools, plus brass, tin, bronze, rivets, and more)
www.copperandbrass.com/cnb/index.htm   (copper and brass)
www.realwroughtiron.com   (Real Wrought Iron supplier)
www.rjleahy.com   (Rivets, brass sheet, bronze nails, brass escutcheon pins, etc)
www.hansonrivet.com (Wide selection, will even make rivets to order)

Paint

www.milkpaint.com   (Chemically safe historic paint)
www.artistcraftsman.com/index.php?main_page=index   (Old fashioned milk paint)
www.realmilkpaint.com   (Environmentally friendly paint)

Coins

www.museumreproductions.co.uk   (Reproduction Celtic coins)
www.dorchesters.com   (Museum quality reproduction coins)
www.warrenscoins.com   (Ancient coin reproduction)

Natural Dyes

www.spin-knit-dye.com/natural-plant-dyes.html  (Natural plant dyes)
www.woad.org.uk  (All about woad, dye for sale)
www.maiwa.com/home/supply/natural_dyes/index.html  (Huge variety of natural dyes)

Auctions

www.timelineauctions.com/auctions  (Iron age Celtic and Roman Artifacts)
www.museumsurplus.com/RomanAntiquitiesPAGE1.htm  (Museum surpluss Auctions, Roman and Greek)
www.thehonourablecompany.com/store/bronze-celtic-rings/cat_2.html   (Antiquities gift shop)

Books

The Gods Of The Celts - By Miranda Green
Art Of The Celts - By Lloyd and Jennifer Laing
The Ancient Celts - By Barry Cunliffe
Time Frame 600-400BC - A Soaring Spirit
The Celts Of The West - By Venceslas Kruta and Werner Forman
The Roman Frontier In Britain - David C.A Shotter
Life and Death in the Ironage - Jennifer Foster
Pictish Warrior AD 297-841 - Paul Wagner
The Gallic War: Commentaries on the Gallic war 1 to 8 - Julius Cesar
On Britain and Germany - Mattingly H. Tacitus
Prehistoric Age in England: Archaeological Remains - Bertram C. A. Windle
Picts and the Scots - Lloyd Laing
Legends of the Celts - Frank Delaney
Everyday Life In The New Stone, Bronze & Early Iron Ages - Marjorie & C H B Quennell
Pre-Christian Ireland: From the First Settlers to the Early Celts (Ancient Peoples and Places) - Peter Harbison
Farmers, Temples and Tombs Pb (Historic Scotland) -  Gordon Barclay
The Making of Scotland - Settlement and Sacrifice - Richard Hingley
Wild Harvesters: The First People in Scotland - Bill Finlayson

Fun Stuff for the kids

www.historictoys.co.uk/default.aspx?page=235  (Wood swords and Sheilds)
www.emmanuelpeluchon.com/rattleback.ws (Rattleback ancient toys)

Childrens Books

National Geographic investigates - Ancient Celts - By Jen Green - Consultant, Bettina Arnold
On The Trail of the Celts In Britain - By Peter Chrisp
Life Of The Ancient Celts - By Hazel Richardson


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