Tristan Hughes

Early Iron Age.

Which leads me to the question of horses in general in the Iron Age.

How symbolic, how important do we think horses became to Iron Age societies?

And that coinage is beautiful.

The surviving coins of Iron Age Britain.

Those horses, they look immaculate.

Well, there you go, Tom.

We've covered a lot of ground, and admittedly, it's been a big subject to try and tackle.

So I appreciate you hanging on in there with my questions, going from one thing to the next.

Really appreciate it.

The legacy of the Iron Age, of course, we had a look at that passage earlier, and how it was seen as kind of backward and uncivilized compared to Rome.

But in regards to actually on the ground itself, following the Roman conquest, is it fair to say that the Iron Age, I mean, Iron Age way of life, roundhouses and so on, I mean, it doesn't just disappear like that?

Tom, this has been fascinating.

So much ground covered.

We could do several more hours talking about Iron Age Britain, but we'll leave it there.

It just goes for me to say thank you so much for taking the time to come on the show.

Well, there you go.

There was Professor Tom Moore giving you an introduction to this amazing but still very mysterious world of Iron Age Britain.

Still much debate around so many topics regarding Iron Age Britain, how different places in Britain were in those centuries before the Roman invasion.

We will put in the show notes links to a couple of other episodes we have recorded over the years about Iron Age Britain, one all about the Druids with the one and only Professor Ronald Hutton, and another one about late Iron Age Britain, what we actually know about the very end of the Iron Age at the time that the Romans invade, which also does feature Tom for part of it.