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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1: The beginnings of Iron Age studies
Part II: Space and Time
2: Space and time
Landscape
Social space
Time and chronologies
A simple system
3: Background
Climatic change
Settlement in the Thames valley
Settlement in East Anglia
Ring forts in eastern England
Settlements on the southern British chalkland
The economy of the chalkland settlement
Hill-top enclosures in southern Britain
The south-west peninsula
The Midlands and Wales
The north and north-west of Britain
Pottery
The bronze industry
Burials
Regional and interregional systems
4: Regional groupings: An overview
Regional variation in settlement form: an overview
Regional variation in bronze typology: eighth to fifth centuries
Regional aspects of material culture
Identifying immigrant communities
Summary
5: Regional groupings: The ceramic evidence
The south and east
‘Αceramic’ Britain: Wales and the north
The north-west of the British Isles
Summary
6: Protohistory to History, c. 150 BC to AD 43
External influences: Belgae and Romans 150–55 BC
The reformation of British society 130–55 BC
The campaigns of Julius Caesar, 55 and 54 BC
The emergence of tribal kingdoms, 54–10 BC
The period of disruption, c. 10 BC–c. AD 10
The last decades of freedom, c. AD 10–43
7: The tribes of the south-eastern core: Catuvellauni/Trinovantes, Cantii and Atrebates
The Aylesford–Swarling culture: pottery and burials
The Catuvellauni/Trinovantes
The Cantii
The Atrebates
Summary
8: The tribes of the periphery: Durotriges, Dobunni, Iceni and Corieltauvi
The Durotriges (Figure 8.3)
The Dobunni (Figure 8.10)
The Corieltauvi (Figure 8.13)
The Iceni (Figure 8.15)
Summary
9: The late pre-Roman Iron Age in western and northern Britain
The south-west peninsula: the Dumnonii (Figure 9.1)
Wales
Northern England (Figure 9.4)
Southern Scotland: Votadini, Novantae, Selgovae and Damnonii (Figure 9.6)
Northern Scotland (Figure 9.6)
10: The establishment of Roman control
Part III: Themes
11: Themes
12: Settlement and the settlement pattern in the south-east
The settlements of the southern chalklands
The Cotswolds and the Upper Thames valley
The Severn–Avon valleys and the west Midlands
The west Midlands
The east Midlands, the fen edge and East Anglia
The Lower Thames basin
The Somerset Levels
Houses (Figure 12.19)
Summary
13: Settlement and the settlement pattern in the west
The south-west peninsula
Wales and the Borderlands
The west: a summary
14: Settlement and the settlement pattern in the centre and north
The Pennines and central Britain
The Tees–Forth region
Western Scotland and the Western and Northern Isles
Summary
15: The development of hillforts and enclosed oppida
The structure of hillfort defences
Summary of hillfort defences
Entrances
Regional differences in the planning and siting of hillforts
The development of hillforts
The latest hillfort development in the west and north
Fécamp style defences
The enclosed oppida in the south-east
16: Food-producing strategies
Plant cultivates and agrarian technology
Animal domesticates and their management
Some regional regimes
Conclusion
17: Exchanges with the wider world
Contacts with middle Europe: eighth and seventh centuries (Figure 17.1)
Atlantic trade: eighth to sixth centuries
European contacts: sixth to fifth century
Contacts between Britain and the Continent: fifth to second century
Trade in the first century BC and early first century AD
Summary of Continental contacts from the seventh century BC to the first century AD
18: Craft, production and art
Home industries: wool, linen, leather, carpentry and basketry (Figures 18.1 and 18.2)
Ironworking
Non-ferrous metallurgy: copper, tin, lead, silver and gold
Glass
Pottery production
Shale, jet and lignite
Quernstones
Salt
Specialist schools of metalworkers
Coinage
19: Warfare
Weapons and armour
Chariots
Defensive architecture
The nature of warfare
20: Beliefs and behaviour
Burial rituals
Religious and ritual locations
Sacred locations and the natural landscape
Propitiation and belief within the home
Druids and the gods
Iconography
Space, place and time
Part IV: Systems
21: Iron Age society and social change
The dynamics of change: some generalizations
Space and territory
The Earliest, Early and Middle Iron Age: c. 800–100 BC
Summary of the Earliest, Early and Middle Iron Age, c. 800–100 BC
The Late Iron Age reorganization c. 100 BC–AD 43
22: Models, systems and beyond
Appendix A: Pottery
Appendix B: A note on radiocarbon dating
Appendix C: List of principal sites
Abbreviations
Bibliography
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