Before Rome: The Truth About Late Iron Age Britain
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Roman connections with Britain stretch back to (at least) the mid 1st century BC. But what has archaeology revealed about the Late Iron Age British societies they interacted with? Do we have any concrete evidence for the druids? Was human sacrifice a thing? Sit back and enjoy in this very special Ancients episode, as experts provide a detailed run down of life and death in Late Iron Age Britain. The episode covers several topics: urbanisation, ritual and religion, trade, slavery and warfare. Featuring Durham University's Professor Tom Moore, alongside Colchester and Ipswich Museums' Dr Frank Hargrave and Dr Carolina Lima.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ancient's on History Hit. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast we're talking all about life and death |
| 0:18.4 | in late Iron Age Britain. |
| 0:20.2 | Now what do I mean by that? |
| 0:21.8 | Well later on age we're roughly talking about the periods that say between 200 BC and |
| 0:26.2 | 43 AD. |
| 0:27.6 | The time just before the Roman invasions of Britain culminating in the invasion of the |
| 0:32.9 | Emperor Claudius in 43 AD. |
| 0:34.7 | We're going to be talking about life and death in Britain just before the beginning of |
| 0:40.3 | the Roman period in Ancient Britannia shall we say. |
| 0:44.1 | And we're going to be covering various topics such as urbanism, the emergence of urbanization |
| 0:49.2 | in the form of these operta, these small proto towns if you like, which starts appearing |
| 0:54.8 | at the end of the Iron Age in places such as Colchester. |
| 0:58.8 | We're going to be talking about ritual and religion and of course by mentioning those |
| 1:02.8 | two topics of course we're going to be talking a little bit about the Druids and this |
| 1:08.0 | whole idea of human sacrifice. |
| 1:10.6 | But we're also going to be looking beyond the shores of Britain in this period. |
| 1:13.9 | We're going to be looking at connections between Iron Age elites in Britain at that time |
| 1:18.8 | and the continent and the Roman Empire. |
| 1:21.8 | We're going to be looking at some lavish burials, we're going to be looking at trade routes |
| 1:26.1 | but also we're going to be looking at some more infamous sites of Iron Age Britain, of |
| 1:30.5 | late Iron Age Britain such as slavery and warfare. |
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