Iron Age Europe

Hallstatt () is a small town in the Gmunden District of the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Situated between the southwestern shore of Hallstätter See and the steep slopes of the Dachstein massif, the town lies in the Salzkammergut region, on the national road linking Salzburg and Graz.

thumb|300px|Maiden Castle, Dorset|Maiden Castle in England is one of the largest hillforts in Europe. Photograph taken in 1935 by Major George Allen (1891–1940).

thumb|260x260px|Distribution of fortified oppida, La Tène culture|La Tène period

type of megalithic monument

thumb|A bloomery in operation. The bloom will eventually be drawn out of the bottom hole.

Vulci or Volci (Etruscan: Velch or Velx, depending on the romanization used) was a rich Etruscan city in what is now northern Lazio, central Italy.

prehistoric cemetery lacking above-ground structures, buildings, or grave markers

newly mined and refined type of metal

series of military conflicts between the Roman Empire and Germanic tribes

Vasconic archaeological artifact from 1st century BC

300px|thumb|Aerial view from the 1970s. Eketorp is an Iron Age fort, located in southeastern Öland, Sweden, and extensively reconstructed and enlarged in the Middle Ages. Throughout the ages the fortification has served a variety of somewhat differing uses: from defensive ringfort, to medieval safe haven and thence a cavalry garrison. In the 20th century it was further reconstructed to become a heavily visited tourist site and a location for re-enactment of medieval battles. Eketorp is the only one of the 19 known prehistoric fortifications on Öland that has been completely excavated, yielding

combat helmet

300px|thumb|right|Ottarshögen in Vendel

thumb|300px|Archaeological cultures of the Bronze Age associated with the Nordwestblock area The Nordwestblock (German, "Northwest Block") is a hypothetical Northwestern European cultural region that some scholars propose as a prehistoric culture in the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, far-northern France, and northwestern Germany, in an area approximately bounded by the Somme, Oise, Meuse and Elbe rivers, possibly extending to the eastern part of what is now England, during the Bronze and Iron Ages from the 3rd to the 1st millennia BCE, up to the onset of historical sources, in the 1st centu

ancient statue

helmet with horns

defensive walls

ringfort on Öland, Sweden

pair of ship burials, found on Saare County, Estonia

Iron Age trackway

period of history

thumb|Drawing of the Viereckschanze Buchendorf in Germany A Viereckschanze (from German "four-corner-rampart"; plural -en) is a rectangular ditched enclosure that was constructed during the Iron Age in parts of Celtic Western Europe. They are widespread in Germany, parts of northern France and also in some regions of the Iberian Peninsula, most notably in Portugal.

mountain

Construction method for defensive walls

Iron Age burial site in Scandinavia

the last stage of the prehistoric period and the first of the protohistoric periods

Istolatios or Istolatius was a warlord and military chief of the Turdetani, he lived in the 3rd century BC. Endowed with great prestige, he organized a large army with Turdetans and Celtiberian and Iberian troops to oppose the Carthaginian invasion of Hamilcar Barca.

22 ironage gold objects found near Jelling, Denmark in 2020