#Archaeology31 is all about #reinterpretation today and that's an important one for the late Iron Age in Ireland and Scotland. Both are borders of the Roman empire ( its always borders innit), and we can only imagine the social stress of that. Would they invade? Friend or foe?

What benefits would they bring, even as allies? So, sonething odd happens on these boundaries - metal objects start to take very ancient symbols and rejig them they reunagube and reinterpret stuff. They're doing the same with neolithic burial cairns, and holy places,

Reusing, rebooting. And it might be that they think the old, old foundation symbols will offer protection- maybe identity be ame really important. Holding on to it in the face of an empire which assimilated everything into it. Or could these symbols have been reintroduced

By Roman auxiliaries posted across Europe? Were folks in Britain and Ireland reminded where their own roots came from (or where they thought or wanted them to be!), when those culturally closer to La Tene arrived here? We don't know. That's part of the fun. What we do have

Are fabulous objects which we geg to study in minute detail!