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The Battersea Shield, c. 350–50 BC. The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.
Old Oswestry, an Iron Age hillfort. c. 800 BC Celts bring iron working to Britain; Hallstatt Culture. [19] c. 400 BC Parisi tribe from northern France settle in Yorkshire. [19] First brochs constructed. [19] c. 330 BC Pytheas of Massilia circumnavigates Britain. [19] c. 300 BC La Tène artwork introduced from northern France. [19] c. 100 BC
The list of Iron Age hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) that are associated with the British Iron Age, approximately 8th century BC to the 1st century AD.
Mellor hill fort is a prehistoric site in North West England dating from the British Iron Age – about 800 BC to 100 AD. Situated on a hill in Mellor, Greater Manchester, on the western edge of the Peak District, the hill fort overlooks the Cheshire Plain.
Hallstatt culture ( early Iron Age, c. 1200 BC – 500 BC) La Tène culture (late Iron Age, c. 600 BC – 50 AD) The Hallstatt culture and La Tène culture originated in what is now southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The predominant form of rampart construction was pfostenschlitzmauer, or Kelheim-style.
In 1985 there was also a find of Romano-British jewellery and raw materials buried in a clay pot in AD 155, the Snettisham Jeweller's Hoard.Though it has no direct connection with the nearby Iron Age finds, it may be evidence of a long tradition of gold- and silver-working in the area.
The main Iron Age tribes in Southern Britain The names of the Celtic Iron Age tribes in Britain were recorded by Roman and Greek historians and geographers, especially Ptolemy . Information from the distribution of Celtic coins has also shed light on the extents of the territories of the various groups that occupied the island.
A reconstruction of the Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave, a large Iron Age burial mound dating from c. 550 BCE in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.Although constructed a thousand years before the Anglo-Saxon barrows, there are cultural similarities between the two.