Tristan Hughes

Because in the past, we always, you look at the Great Hillforts, you look at the ramparts, the chariots and so on, and you think warrior society.

How far can we say that the people, the men of Iron Age Britain, that they were warrior societies, that they were expected to fight?

Because you might want to think of somewhere like an opera, like Stanek or somewhere similar, Colchester, Cameludnum, where you mentioned how the gathering of people all together

I guess, could there be a theory that maybe once in a while, if they'd had a disagreement with a nearby people, the elite, they gather there in their chariots, the farmers are expected to gather with their spears and slings, and that's the kind of the classic, and then off they go for a quick fight.

Let's talk about religion.

For most of the Iron Age period in Britain, is it quite invisible to see examples of ritual and religion?

But is there an importance of the natural landscape?

Can we gather that?

I mean, I might also think of...

objects like the Battersea Shield or the Waterloo Helmet, which you can go and see in the British Museum today, do we get a sense that

there is a real attachment to wooded areas, to rivers, and so on throughout the Iron Age.

So let's talk about druids.

What do we know about druids in Iron Age Britain?

Gosh, Bedwina, can we say anything about them at all?

Fair enough.

I mean, one thing I would ask, though, is the human sacrifice question.

Archaeologically, is it more clear to see evidence of human sacrifice in Iron Age remains?

You mentioned earlier Uffington, and that being a prime Iron Age centre.

Now, when someone mentions Uffington, I do think of the beautiful white horse, the chalk horse on the side of the hill there.

And Iron Age roots, do we believe, to that white horse?