A short, general guide to the European Iron Age (c.800BC - AD43) based around the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The objects from the museum are used to illustrate key features of the economy and trade, food, domestic animals, crafts and production, metalworking, ornament and appearance, weapons and warfare of the Iron Age period. Particular attention is given to the archaeology of the Iron Age cemetery of Hallstatt excavated by Sir John Evans in the 1860s.