24th October 2011, 10:28 AM
BAJR Wrote:Funny how many of us would like to understand the Iron Age (or immediate Post Roman (which to my mind is the bloody Iroan Age again under a rebranded name!)
I may have mentioned this before, but in Scandinavian archaeology the Iron Age is split into : Older (early) Iron Age c 500BC-0AD, Roman Iron Age 0AD-500AD , and Younger (late Iron Age) 500AD-1066AD (within which there are further specific sub divisions e.g Migration period 400-550AD, Merovingian 550-793AD, Viking 793-1066AD)....a similar definition adopted in the UK would both account for the post-Roman period in areas of Roman influence and give a time perspective to some of the extremities where Roman influence was less apparent i.e splitting the Iron Age into more 'manageable' chunks....
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