1st Edition

The Iron Age in Lowland Britain

By D.W. Harding Copyright 1974
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

This book was written at a time when the older conventional diffusionist view of prehistory, largely associated with the work of V. Gordon Childe, was under rigorous scrutiny from British prehistorians, who still nevertheless regarded the ‘Arras’ culture of eastern Yorkshire and the ‘Belgic’ cemeteries of south-eastern Britain as the product of immigrants from continental Europe. Sympathetic to... Read more

Preface  Part 1: Background to the Study  1. Culture, Chronology, Classification  Part 2: Settlement and Society  2. Enclosure Types and Structural Patterns  3. House Types: Round and Rectangular  4. Fortifications and Warfare  5. Economy, Industry and Crafts  6. Celtic Religion and Ceremonial Monuments  7. Burials and Funerary Practices  Part 3: Material Remains and Chronology  8. The Late Bronze Age Problem and the Transition to the Early Iron Age  9. The Primary Iron Age: Native, Refugee, Colonist?  10. The Early Le Téne Phase: The ‘Marnian’ Problem  11. The Middle La Téne Phase: Consolidation and Insular Developments  12. The Late Le Téne Phase: The Belgic Invasions  Part 4: Historical Summary  13. Invasion, Commercial Diffusion or Insular Evolution?

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D.W. Harding