A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. Now known as the Melsonby Hoard ...

"The presence of materials imported from the Mediterranean, and a type of continental European wagon new to Britain, challenges the idea that Iron Age Britons were isolated," Garrow said.

“It sheds new light on Iron Age life in the north and Britain, but it also demonstrates connections with Europe.” Since Mr. Heads’s finding in 2021, a team of archaeologists working at the ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men. An international team of geneticists and archaeologists, led by Trinity College ...

A remarkable Iron Age hoard, unearthed in a Yorkshire field, is prompting archaeologists to reassess the wealth and power dynamics of northern Britain two millennia ago. The discovery, dubbed the ...

The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain and demonstrates that the elites of northern Britain were just as powerful ...

Moore says that the pieces decorated in both Mediterranean and Iron Age styles suggested a network of elites across Britain, into Europe and the Roman world. “The destruction of so many high ...