Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology: The Iron Age in Lowland Britain

301 Pages·2014·37.6 MB·English

by  D.W. Harding

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 30
THE IRON AGE IN LOWLAND BRITAIN
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THE IRON AGE IN LOWLAND BRITAIN
D. W. HARDING
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The Iron Age
in Lowland Britain
D. W. Harding
Routledge & Kegan Paul
London and Boston
First published in 1974
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane
London EC4V 5EL and
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To Eric Birley
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Contents
Preface page xvii
I BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
1 Culture, chronology, classification 3
II SETTLEM ENT AND SOCIETY
2 Enclosure types and structural patterns 21
3 House types: round and rectangular 37
4 Fortifications and warfare 54
5 Economy, industry and crafts 77
6 Celtic religion and ceremonial monuments 96
7 Burials and funerary practices 113
III M ATERIAL REMAINS AND CHRONOLOGY
8 The late Bronze Age problem and the transition to the early Iron Age 129
9 The primary Iron Age: native, refugee, colonist? 134
10 The early La Tene phase: the ‘Marnian’ problem 157
11 The middle La Tene phase: consolidation and insular developments 177
12 The late La Tene phase: the Belgic invasions 201
IV HISTORICAL SUMMARY
13 Invasion, commercial diffusion or insular evolution? 229
Abbreviations 233
Bibliography 234
Index 251
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