Professor Tom Moore
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Yep, there's going to be the first exhibition in Yorkshire Museum on the 15th of May.
So excited to kind of see the public's reaction to it.
Yeah, I mean, one of the largest discoveries for the Iron Age in the whole of Britain, I would say, probably the largest forward of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered, you know, huge number of artifacts, particularly really exciting bits of vehicles, chariots, but also possibly wagons, which we haven't seen before, which sounds a bit nerdy, but it's really interesting for Iron Age specialists, because we've never seen forward wagons in Britain before.
So the Iron Age starts around about 800 BC.
It depends when you define the Iron Age, all the way through to the Roman conquest, really.
So AD 43 in the southeast of England, obviously slightly later in northern England, and then parts of Scotland are never conquered by Rome.
That's a little bit of an artificial cutoff for the end of it, because, of course, that's just the conquest, but actually much of...
Iron Age life in many parts of Britain carries on for a long period into the Roman period.
But that's what we define as the Iron Age.
And in the past, sometimes we've kind of tended to kind of think of Iron Age life and society and settlement as all being one thing.
But like you say, there's a huge change between the end of the Bronze Age, the late Bronze Age, all the way through to the Roman period.
And also it's worth remembering there's a huge diversity just in Britain in terms of the way people lived, the societies they lived in, the settlements they lived in.
Sometimes it's quite hard to kind of just generalize and say, this is what the Iron Age was like.
That was the kind of the old way of looking at it.
I mean, much of what was happening in the late Iron Age was a precursor to what happened in the Roman Empire.
I mean, if we think about how farming was in the late Iron Age, most of those developments had already happened under Iron Age societies.