For generations, southern Britain has been the hotspot of Iron Age archaeology. The Melsonby Hoard redraws that map. “This shows that individuals there had the same quality of materials and ...

"The presence of materials imported from the Mediterranean, and a type of continental European wagon new to Britain, challenges the idea that Iron Age Britons were isolated," Garrow said.

The collection, which dates to the first century C.E., includes items ranging from elaborately decorated horse harnesses to ornate cauldrons ...