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And with tribal manufacture came trade. |
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The warriors, druid priests and artists of Iron Age Britain shipped their wares all over Europe. |
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Trading with the expanding Roman Empire. |
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In return, with no home-grown grapes or olives. |
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Mediterranean wine and oil arrived in large earthenware jars. |
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So Iron Age Britain was definitely not the back of beyond. |
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Its tribes may all have led lives separated from each other by custom and language. |
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And they may have had no great capital city, but taken together they added up to something in the world, the bustling of countless productive, energetic beehives |
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What the bees made was not honey, but gold. |
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So the Romans would have known all about this strange but alluring world of fat cattle and busy forgers. |
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Evidence of its refinement would certainly have found its way to Rome. |
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But along with the glittering metal ware came stories of alarming cults. |
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Which might have prompted the usual Roman dinner time discussions. |
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But all very interesting, I dare say, but would we really want to call them a civilisation? |
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Supposing they would have seen an ancient sculpture, like this haunting stone face with its archaic secretive smile。 |
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The eyes closed as if in some mysterious devotional trance. |
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The nose flattened, the che，eks broad. |
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The whole thing so spellbindingly reminiscent of things the Romans must have seen in Etruria or around the Greek islands., |
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Would they then have said, "Yes, this is a work of art"? |
