The Iron Age and Gallo-Roman Periods in Jersey
By (author) Philip de Jersey
Paperback (Published)
(July 2026)
ISBN: 9781805831419
7.99 x 10.91 inches
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This volume reviews current knowledge of Jersey’s Iron Age and Gallo‑Roman archaeology, placing the island within the wider context of the Channel Islands and north‑west France. Moving beyond the famous Iron Age coin hoards, it highlights new discoveries and identifies priorities for future research into Jersey’s prehistory and Roman past.
This volume is one of a series of archaeological resource assessments commissioned by Jersey Heritage as part of an Archaeological Research Framework for the island. The study of the Iron Age in Jersey has been dominated for many decades by the extraordinary horizon of hoards – perhaps a dozen or more – associated with the Gallic Wars in the mid-first century BC. More recent research is beginning to expand our knowledge of the Iron Age beyond that narrow focus. The Gallo-Roman occupation of the island has in contrast been somewhat overlooked, largely because of a perception that there are few sites and relatively little evidence for that period, but here both archaeological investigation and the careful recording of metal-detected finds is rapidly improving our understanding of the Roman era. This volume provides an up-to-date assessment of the state of knowledge so far, setting it in the wider context of the Channel Islands and north-west France, and suggesting directions of research for future investigations in Jersey.
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
Resource assessment
The nature of the evidence
Settlement in Jersey, from the Iron Age to the Gallo-Roman
Chance discoveries
The hoarding horizon
Research agenda and strategy
Introduction
RQ1: The existing evidence
RQ2: Searching for new evidence – fortified sites
RQ3: Searching for new evidence – non-fortified sites
RQ4: Searching for new evidence – landscape
Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Gazetteer of Iron Age and Gallo-Roman sites and finds
A. Fortified sites
B. Non-fortified sites
C. Late Iron Age/early Gallo-Roman hoarding horizon
D. Isolated/chance finds, Iron Age and Gallo-Roman
Miscellaneous/unlocated finds, island-wide
Philip de Jersey has been the States of Guernsey archaeologist since 2008. Between 1992 and 2007 he worked at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, maintaining and developing the Celtic Coin Index and publishing widely on the Iron Age coinage of Britain and France. His volume on Coin Hoards in Iron Age Britain was awarded the North Book Prize by the British Numismatic Society in 2016. He returned to his native island in 2007 and since then has excavated on many sites across the Channel Islands, including the Le Câtillon II hoard site in Jersey. Current research interests include ongoing work on Le Câtillon and other hoards in Jersey, and the investigation of sites dating from the early Iron Age to late Roman periods on Longis Common, Alderney.
- By (author) Philip de Jersey
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