The Iron Age sees the transformation of the archaeological landscape of Britain and Ireland and the beginning of the written record for the islands. This double module is designed to provide students with a detailed understanding of the archaeology of the period. It will focus on the technology, settlements and monuments in Britain and on the nature of social change during the period.

It aims to provide a survey of the archaeological and historical evidence and to provide a detailed critique of how archaeologists use the primary evidence derived from artefacts and excavations to build explanatory models of society and individual action. 

By the end of the module students will have:

• a detailed knowledge of the Iron Age sequence in Britain and Ireland
• an understanding of the principal changes in settlement form and landscape organisation in time and space
• knowledge of technological changes and developments in subsistence practice
• a broad understanding of the nature of archaeological evidence
• an ability to collate and interpret archaeological information in a prehistoric and proto-historic context.

20 lectures

A field trip

A museum visit and handling session

By the end of the module students will have:

• a detailed knowledge of the Iron Age sequence in Britain and Ireland
• an understanding of the principal changes in settlement form and landscape organisation in time and space
• knowledge of technological changes and developments in subsistence practice
• a broad understanding of the nature of archaeological evidence
• an ability to collate and interpret archaeological information in a prehistoric and proto-historic context.

This module will be assessed via one essay and one exam.

The opportunity for reassessment in this module

A resit essay

Popular mythologies and our understanding of the Celts and the druids

The Chronology of the Iron Age

The geography of the Iron Age a consideration of settlement variability, regional characteristics and tribes

The importance of technology and craftworking and in particular the nature and significance of iron production

The house and its role in creating cosmology for the Iron Age.

The monumental houses of Atlantic Scotland

Burial rites in the Iron Age and in particular square barrow burials in Yorkshire

The agricultural basis for society

The archaeology of Wales

The hillfort societies of Wessex

The changing significance of exchange and the contact with Europe

Prestige metalworking and the nature of art

Late Iron Age developments in south eastern England exploring in particular urban origins, the development of coinage and the importance of cremation.

The unusual Iron Age archaeology of Ireland 

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