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GLADMAN wrote:
Those slave chains, though. Not a nice period, The Iron Age.
They only found animal bones there though, right? Thinking of Caesar's reports on what happened to prisoners of war that were kept as slaves...

I was reading up on Arthur's Seat area and read slavery was allowed to continue in the salt workers and coal miners till 1799. At least the Celts had laws governing the treatment of slaves which allowed them to get free again.

Branwen wrote:
. At least the Celts had laws governing the treatment of slaves which allowed them to get free again.
True - I get the point in relative terms... it was advanced thinking for the time, considering their's was, after all, a warrior society. And of course the Nazis were systematically using slave labour in the 1940s. Even the self proclaimed apex of civilisation - Victorian England - was using children as slave labour