Iron Age Archaeology
Hillforts
This list of hillforts includes a handful of the most interesting fortified villages occupied in the European Iron Age: not that fortified villages are necessarily restricted to Europe or the Iron Age.
Hochdorf (Germany)
Hochdorf is the grave and rural farmstead of a Celtic chieftain, an Iron Age prince at Hohen Asperg, near Stuttgart, Germany.
Guide to the Iron Age
During the European Iron Age the production of iron created a burgeoning growth of urban dwellings.
Roquepertuse (France)
Roquepertuse has a strange cultic shrine constructed by its Celtic occupants, with a Janus-faced sculpture dominating its entrance
Hirschlanden Figure (Germany)
The Hirschlanden Figure is an early Iron Age, life-sized, three-dimensional statue of a man, recovered from a burial mound in Germany.
European Iron Age Sites
Iron Age archaeological sites found in central, northern and western Europe have many similarities.
Heuneburg (Germany)
Heuneburg is a multicomponent site with an important Iron Age hillfort located on a steep hill overlooking the Danube River in southern Germany.
Hallstatt Culture
The Hallstatt culture is what archaeologists call the early part of the Iron Age of central Europe, ca 800-450 BC.
Basel-Gasfabrik (Switzerland)
Basel-Gasfabrik is a late La Tene settlement, located near the town of Basel, Switzerland.
La Tène Culture
The La Tene culture is what archaeologists call the barbarians of central Europe, who for several centuries terrorized the Greek and Roman civilizations during the latter part of the European Iron Age.
Roman Empire in the Netherlands
In the first century BC, Roman allies from the Rhine river valley immigrated into the lowlands of what is today Netherlands.
Iron Age Lake Dwellings of Meare in the Somerset Levels
Meare is the name given to two well-preserved Iron Age villages (Meare Village East and Meare Village West, located north of Meare, Somerset, on the south bank of the River Brue in the Somerset Levels.
Alexander's Archaeology Site: Iron Smelting
From Xander Veldhuijzen, a wealth of information on iron smelting, including ethnographic and archaeological data on excvations at Tell Hammeh az-Zarqa in Jordan.
Celtic Culture
The Celtic culture (or Celts) were a long-recognized cultural group of the Iron Age in western Europe, from about the 11th to the first century BC.
Archaeology Book Review: Warrior Women
While primarily focused on the archaeological evidence for women acting as warriors and priestesses during eastern European Iron Age, the book is a fusion of archaeology and ethnography, mythology, and history
Corlea Trackway (Ireland)
Corlea Trackway is an Iron Age roadway that measures one kilometer long and four meters (12 feet) wide, and was built of massive oaken planks
Biskupin, Poland
Papers and documents relating to Biskupin, known as the 'Polish Pompeii," a Bronze and Early Iron Age settlement, from Archaeological Records of Europe.
Citânia de Briteiros, Portugal
A virtual tour of the site of Citânia de Briteiros, an Iron Age hillfort managed and investigated by the Universidade do Minho. Portugeuse and English.
La Tene (Switzerland)
The archaeological site of La Tène is located on the edge of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland; it is the type site for the Iron Age (450-50 BC) culture for which it is named.
Early Iron Production
Alexander's Archaeology Site has a wealth of information on iron smelting and its history, including descriptions of his work at the Iron Age site of Tel Beth-Shemesh in Israel.
Feddersen Wierde: Iron Age Settlement
Quintessential of all the Iron Age Saxon settlements, Feddersen Wierde is located on the marshy coastland of northern Germany. It was first occupied around the first century BC and continued without break until the 5th century AD.
Navan Fort (Northern Ireland)
The Iron Age archaeological site of Navan Fort is an ancient political and religious capital of the celtic world
Late Prehistoric Pottery Gazetteer
A CD-Rom project, including Late Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age ceramics from England; the University of Southampton.
Minehowe
Iron Age settlement in the Orkneys; a report on recent excavations from the Orkneyjar site.
Sidon (Lebanon) - Phoenician City State and Harbor Sidon
The archaeological site of Sidon includes the ruins of what was an important city-state of the Iron Age civilization of Phoenicia also called Canaan, and the center port for trade between Assyria, Egypt, Cyprus and the Aegean Sea between the sixth and fifth centuries BC.
SMELT/Low Birker
An archaeological research project from Michigan Technogical University, exploring Viking Age, c. AD 1000, iron production and life in the Upper Esk Valley, Cumbria, England.
The Iron Metallurgy of the Dneipr-Don Valley
From Vladimir Koloda and the East-European Archaeology server, a discussion of Iron Age sites in the Balto-slavic states.
Trivia Quiz: La Tène Culture
What was the La Tène Culture and why does anybody care?
Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey
An international team has been excavating at the late Iron Age site of Ziyaret Tepe since 1997, and researchers believe the site is the ancient Assyrian provincial capital of Tushhan. This website is from the University of Akron.