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The Isle of Portland: An Iron Age Port‐of‐trade
Author(s) -
Taylor John
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0092.00130
Subject(s) - port (circuit theory) , archaeology , history , channel (broadcasting) , geography , engineering , telecommunications , electrical engineering
The Isle of Portland (Dorset, England) was part of a trading system that involved the circulation of goods in and across the English Channel during the first century BC. This paper assesses the suitability of Portland as an Iron Age port‐of‐trade, focuses on the exotics found there and discusses evidence for its hill‐fort, which was destroyed in the middle of the nineteenth century