Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Iron Age settlement patterns in Scotland are not homogeneous, but, in these places, there is no sign of a privileged class living in large castles or forts, nor of an elite priestly caste or of peasants with no access to the kind of accommodation enjoyed by the middle classes. [24] [25] [f]
Park Law Iron Age settlement near Sourhope in the Borders, was the site of an agricultural settlement during the Iron Age. Nearby hillsides have prominent lynchets or cultivation rigs. Agriculture in prehistoric Scotland includes all forms of farm production in the modern boundaries of Scotland before the beginning of the early historic era.
Bennachie, a prominent hill with Bronze and Iron Age remains, including a 20-metre (66-foot) diameter roundhouse. (S) [79] 1500 BC – 150 AD East Lothian: Traprain Law, a hill fort and burial site that covered up to 16 hectares (40 acres) and was a seat of Votadini power. (M, S) [80] 1255 Forth Valley
The site consists of a 5000-year-old Neolithic chambered tomb, the remains of an Iron Age settlement that consists of Iron Age roundhouses and Pictish buildings, and two Viking age buildings. [1] The Knowe of Swandro site is located directly on the beach and is being rapidly destroyed by coastal erosion.
Roman influence beyond Hadrian's Wall does not appear to have had a major impact on settlement patterns, with Iron Age hill forts and promontory forts continuing to be occupied through the early Medieval period. [10] These often had defences of dry stone or timber laced walls, sometimes with a palisade. [11]
The Iron Age is an archaeological age, the last of the three-age system of Old World prehistory. It follows the Bronze Age, in the Ancient Near East beginning c. 1200 BC, and in Europe beginning in 793 It is taken to end with the beginning of Classical Antiquity, in about the 6th century BC, although in Northern Europe, the Germanic Iron Age is taken to last until the beginning of the Viking ...
A fire 2,200 years ago that burned a settlement also preserved a moment of life and war in Iron Age Spain. Newly unearthed clues may lead back to the arsonists.
The Iron Age (c. 1200 – c. ... Portugal, is one of the examples of archaeological sites of the Iron Age. This settlement (fortified villages) covered an area of 3.8 ...