The regions of Wales were developing along tribal lines by the
time the advent of iron ushered in a new cultural change. The
Ordovices in the north east and the Silures in the south east
are but two of these early tribes, the names of which are not
their own but those given them by late Roman invaders.     A
more balanced and likely theory is that the actual number of
Celtic newcomers was low, and though they managed to dominate
the culture of the earlier inhabitants of Wales, they did so
without changing the overall physical or racial characteristics.
So the Welsh of today are more likely to owe their physiognomy,
if not their culture, to the Beaker People rather than the later
Celts.  The Iron Age is the age of the Celt in Britain. Over the
500 or so years leading up to the first Roman invasion a Celtic
culture established itself throughout the British Isles. Who
were these Celts? The Celts as we know them today exist largely
in the magnificence of their art and the words of the Romans who
fought them.   Wh