The Iron Age and Gallo-Roman Periods in Jersey

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chronology

Resource assessment

The nature of the evidence

Settlement in Jersey, from the Iron Age to the Gallo-Roman

Chance discoveries

The hoarding horizon

Research agenda and strategy

Introduction

RQ1: The existing evidence

RQ2: Searching for new evidence – fortified sites

RQ3: Searching for new evidence – non-fortified sites

RQ4: Searching for new evidence – landscape

Conclusions

Bibliography

Appendix 1: Gazetteer of Iron Age and Gallo-Roman sites and finds

A. Fortified sites

B. Non-fortified sites

C. Late Iron Age/early Gallo-Roman hoarding horizon

D. Isolated/chance finds, Iron Age and Gallo-Roman

Miscellaneous/unlocated finds, island-wide

About the Author

Philip de Jersey has been the States of Guernsey archaeologist since 2008. Between 1992 and 2007 he worked at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, maintaining and developing the Celtic Coin Index and publishing widely on the Iron Age coinage of Britain and France. His volume on Coin Hoards in Iron Age Britain was awarded the North Book Prize by the British Numismatic Society in 2016. He returned to his native island in 2007 and since then has excavated on many sites across the Channel Islands, including the Le Câtillon II hoard site in Jersey. Current research interests include ongoing work on Le Câtillon and other hoards in Jersey, and the investigation of sites dating from the early Iron Age to late Roman periods on Longis Common, Alderney.