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Jesson, M. and Hill, D., eds. (1971).
The Iron Age and its Hillforts
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The Iron Age and its Hillforts
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M Jesson
D Hill
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1971
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Date Of Issue From: 1971
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05 Dec 2008
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Markets and money
John Collis
97 - 103
In NW Europe in 1st century BC there was a sudden rise of major marketing centres, each with satellite centres and a considerable foreign trade. In Britain the only such major centre at this time was Hengistbury Head, but during 1st century BC new centres such as Colchester and St Albans developed. Peripheral sites used gold and silver coin, but bronze coin was restricted to the major centres and their immediate satellites.
British potin coins: a review
Derek Allen
127 - 154
The first secure classification of British potin coins distinguishes fifteen types and demonstrates their issue from N Kent, for retail marketing purposes, starting in early 1st century BC. They derive not from the potin coins of the Sequani but from a series based on ?Normandy. The eight recorded British hoards were all buried in mid- to late 1st century BC; after this the potin coins continued in degenerate series up to the Conquest. The use of papyrus and the stylus in their manufacture has been confirmed experimentally.
Roman amphorae in pre-Roman Britain
David D Peacock
161 - 188
The evidence of amphorae permits an attempt to assess certain economic and chronological aspects of the later British Iron Age. During the first half of 1st century and perhaps as early as the later 2nd BC, amphorae of best southern Italian wine were received at Hengistbury Head, Hampshire. During and after the pacification of Gaul trade was probably diverted to the east, to the Trinovantes. In the last decade BC new products, fish sauce and olive oil from Spain were added and wine continued to come in. The Spanish trade developed into a significant item in the Romano-British economy (see also 72/1681). Au(adp)
Hillforts, AD 400-700
Peter J Fowler
203 - 213
The role of hillforts in late Roman and immediately post-Roman times is coming under close examination now. Three main questions arise: the frequency of such re-use (provisionally estimated at 20% of hillforts in Western Britain); the possibility that not all the visible defences are pre-Roman (cf recent excavations in Somerset where there are also associations of Roman cemeteries and temples with hillforts); and the significance of this late occupation, ie. who were the classes defending themselves in this way, and who their enemies? See also 72/1720.
