Quote Originally Posted by Ranika
Oh yes, quite, I'm just pointing out that checks and plaid wasn't just a Celtic thing, though Celts did use it far more widely, and it was used by Celtic societies for hundreds of years after our period (and even into the modern period if one counts designs on the Scottish kilt, and the few proper Gaelic-Irish cloaks and shoulder cloaks still in use).
Curious enough that these very same designs have been also found on the mystery caucasian mummies from the Takla-Makan desert, in the heart of China. Those mummies -maybe Tocharian-related- may prove an early Far East-bound Celtic migration -a fact that the Chinese authorities try hard to conceal for nationalistic reasons.