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The Iron Age in Northern Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Extract

Professor Stuart Piggott, who opened the conference, began by tracing the history of Iron Age studies in Scotland. He referred to the idea that there was something essentially peculiar about the Scottish Iron Age, and attributed its growth to an over-emphasis on the distinction between Highland and Lowland Zones. It was not inevitable (though it frequently happened) that Scotland should receive its cultural stimuli at second hand from lowland England, and certainly not that every development in the north should be retarded in time. On the other hand, there were differences, above all the shortage of pottery, and this gave especial value to the recent field studies of monuments, notably those made by the Royal Commission.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1962

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References

1 See Hawkes, ‘The A B C of the British I r a Age’, and Frere, ‘The Iron Age in Southern Britain’, both in ANTIQUIW, 1959, 170 and 183 respectively; and the full report in Frere (ed.), Problems of the Iron Age in Southern Britain published as Occasional Paper no.II by the Institute of Archaeology, London, 1961, and also available from the Council for British Archaeology, 10, Bolton Gardens, London, S.W.5.