2418: Hallstatt Aug 4, 2021

Hallstatt, Austria was the location of Johann Georg Ramsauer's discovery of multiple Bronze Age and Iron Age, Celtic settlements which helped to understand the vast pre-Roman civilizations. Coincidentally, both now and historically, the area was known for its important salt-mines, and even the modern German name for the town 'Hallstatt' is derived from the Gaulish word for 'salt', related to the Welsh 'halen', Cornish 'haloin' and Breton 'halen', all P Celtic (Bretonic) languages. In Q Celtic (Goidelic) languages an [s] is retained instead of an [h] such as Irish and Scots Gaelic 'salann'.