The Iron Age
The Iron Age in South-West Scotland - the period when
metalworking technology advanced to allow production of weapons and
tools in iron - began around 700 B.C. and includes the brief
periods when Scotland was incorporated into Roman Britain in the
1st and 2nd centuries AD. Archaeologists and historians give an
arbitrary end date for the Iron Age around 400AD - the abandonment
of Britain by the Romans - but in reality, in Scotland there was
little social and economic change between late Iron Age society and
Early Medieval society which followed from the 5th
century.
