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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. The Iron Age is not an archaeological horizon of common artefacts but is rather a locally-diverse cultural phase. The British Iron Age followed the British Bronze Age and lasted in theory from the first significant use of iron for tools and weapons in Britain to the Romanisation of the southern half of the island. The Romanised culture is termed Roman Britain and is considered to supplant the British Iron Age. The tribes living in Britain during this time are often popularly considered to be part of a broadly-Celtic culture, but in recent years, that has been disputed. At a minimum, "Celtic" is a linguistic term without an implication of a lasting cultural unity connecting Gaul with the British Isles throughout the Iron Age. The Brittonic languages, which were widely spoken in Britain at this time (as well as others including the Goidelic and Gaulish languages of neighbouring Ireland and Gaul, respectively), certainly belong to the group known as Celtic languages. However, it cannot be assumed that particular cultural features found in one Celtic-speaking culture can be extrapolated to the others. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works about British Iron Age 13
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Excavations at Milla Skerra Sandwick, Unst: Rythmns of Life in Iron Age Shetland
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The Iron Age in Northern Britain: Britons and Romans, Natives and Settlers
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Architecture, Regional Identity and Power in the Iron Age Landscapes of Mid Wales. The Hillforts of North Ceredigion
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Monumentality in Later Prehistory: Building and Rebuilding Castell Henllys Hillfort
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An Inherited Place: Broxmouth Hillfort and the south-east Scottish Iron Age
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Iron Age Hillforts in Britain and Beyond
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A Forged Glamour: Landscape, Identity and Material Culture in the Iron Age
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Social Relations in Later Prehistory: Wessex in the First Millennium BC
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Mellor: Living on the edge. a regional study of an iron age and Romano-British upland settlement
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Iron Age Britain
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Fertility, Propitiation and the Gods in the British Iron Age
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Enamel-working in Iron Age, Roman and Sub-Roman Britain
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Iron Age Communities in Britain: An Account of England, Scotland and Wales from the Seventh Century BC until the Roman Conquest / Barry Cunliffe
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