Iron Age Wetland Deposition: Case studies from Wales and Scotland

REVIEW BY GRAEME CAVERS This volume comprises an assessment of the evidence for Iron Age object deposition from two study areas, modern Wales and Scotland, with the objective of identifying patterns in the available data. Primarily a desk-based exercise based on the author’s doctoral research, the study works with museum and HER records, filtered and categorised using GIS-based analysis of soil types, to classify findspots of single objects, collections, and hoards of Iron Age material from these two regions. There is some time dedicated to the question of what should be considered to constitute a ‘wetland’ environment, and the author correctly and thoughtfully examines landscape co