The Iron Age in Europe lasted between about 800 BC, when iron became a staple for the production of tools in many communities, until the Romans conquests of the mid-last century BC.
Broxmouth, located some 300 meters from the North Sea in East Lothian, Scotland, is the name of an Iron Age hillfort. Excavated in the 1970s as part of one of the largest salvage operations of its day, Broxmouth hillfort underwent modern analysis in the 21st century and is now being published in several venues.
The site is interesting for several reasons: its preservation is remarkable for Scottish sites, and there appears to be evidence for the consumption of deep sea fish.
Hochdorf is the residence and burial place of a rich Celtic chieftain of the Late Hallstatt and early La Tene cultures, located about kilometers from Stuttgart, Germany.
Roquepertuse is a shrine, a cultic site associated with the Celts of the Late Hallstatt period, located in Provence, France.
Heuneburg is an Iron Age hillfort (or Fürstensitz) located on a steep hill overlooking the Danube River in southern Germany. The site includes an area of 3.3 hectares within its fortifications, and at least 15 hectares of unfortified settlement surrounds the hill.
The Biskupin site is a fortified settlement in Poland, occupied between the Late Bronze and early Iron ages, and belonging to the Lausitz (Late Bronze age) and Hallstatt C (Early Iron) cultures.
The archaeological site of La Tène is 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.
Crickley Hill is an important Neolithic and Iron Age site in the Cotswold Hills of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, known to scholars primarily for its evidence of recurring violence. Some traces of a minor Beaker period site are in evidence, but the major occupation was an Iron Age hillfort, between the 7th and 6th centuries BC.
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. The site shows both Late Iron Age and early Anglo Saxon flavors.
The Grauballe Man is the name of an Iron Age bog body recovered in 1952 from a peat bog in central Jutland, Denmark. The body was in an excellent state of preservation, such that the red-haired man was first believed to be a local man who had disappeared on his way back from a local pub. Radiocarbon dating, however, proved that he died sometime during the Late Iron Age.
The Hirschlanden figure is a life-sized, three-dimensional statue of a man with an erect penis, carved during the early Iron Age of 500-550 BC and left to mark a multiple burial.
