[00:00.648]And with tribal manufacture came trade.
[00:04.498]The warriors, druid priests and artists of Iron Age Britain shipped their wares all over Europe.
[00:11.055]Trading with the expanding Roman Empire.
[00:14.152]In return, with no home-grown grapes or olives.
[00:17.629]Mediterranean wine and oil arrived in large earthenware jars.
[00:27.714]So Iron Age Britain was definitely not the back of beyond.
[00:31.407]Its tribes may all have led lives separated from each other by custom and language.
[00:36.106]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
[00:46.190]What the bees made was not honey, but gold.
[00:52.816]So the Romans would have known all about this strange but alluring world of fat cattle and busy forgers.
[00:59.554]Evidence of its refinement would certainly have found its way to Rome.
[01:07.574]But along with the glittering metal ware came stories of alarming cults.
[01:07.974]Which might have prompted the usual Roman dinner time discussions.
[01:11.922]But all very interesting, I dare say, but would we really want to call them a civilisation?
[01:33.517]Supposing they would have seen an ancient sculpture, like this haunting stone face with its archaic secretive smile。
[01:42.898]The eyes closed as if in some mysterious devotional trance.
[01:47.010]The nose flattened, the che，eks broad.
[01:49.148]The whole thing so spellbindingly reminiscent of things the Romans must have seen in Etruria or around the Greek islands.,
[01:57.077]Would they then have said, "Yes, this is a work of art"?