This volume contains fourteen studies providing new perspectives on and material concerning the Iron Age in temperate Europe. Contributors include: P S Wells (The La Tene Period in Germany); T Hjorungdal (The Early Iron Age in western Norway); E Hamilton (Was there ever a Roman Conquest?); J Hill (A contextual study of Iron Age societies and hillforts in southern Britain); C Cumberpatch (Production and society in the Later Iron Age of Bohemia anmd Moravia); H Parzinger (The begining of La Tene culture in central Europe); R Gebhard (The Celtic' oppidum of Manching and its exchange system); P Brun (Oppida and social compexification' in France); G Ferrell (New perspectives on the Iron Age of north-east England); P van den Broeke (Iron Age sea salt trade in the Lower Rhine area); M Kohler (Hillfort settlement in Hallstatt Thuringia); J Webster (Interpretation and the Celtic gods); R Hingley (The Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland) .

Report on urban excavations which revealed an occupation sequence from thirteenth century burgage plots into the moden period. The earliest houses were constructed of timber and there was some evidence for medieval iron working and industrial activity.