The approach to the Early Iron Age around 800 BCE was regionally variable and cannot be reduced to one island-wide technological switch.

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  History of Bronze Age research in Scotland, including summary chronologies — Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (2012)

  Provides explicit southern British and Scottish phase tables and cautions that southern British chronology cannot simply be transferred to Scotland.

  
  Locator: Sections 1.2 and 1.2.5, Tables 1 and 2
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  New data on Irish Later Bronze Age metallurgy: exploring technological continuity and change — Carlo Bottaini, Dirk Brandherm (2026)

  Chemical analysis of 105 Irish Middle and Late Bronze Age artefacts finds broad continuity in Cu-Sn alloying with occasional elevated lead.

  
  Locator: Abstract; pp. 1–36; dataset discussion
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  Jarlshof prehistoric and Norse settlement — Historic Environment Scotland

  Records the multi-period Jarlshof settlement, including late prehistoric houses and metalworking evidence around the Bronze to Iron Age boundary.

  
  Locator: Site summary, prehistoric phases, bibliography and location
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  Excavations and Metal-working at Llwyn Bryn-dinas Hillfort, Llangedwyn, Clwyd — C. R. Musson, W. J. Britnell, J. P. Northover, C. J. Salter, P. Q. Dresser, J. Fitt (1992)

  Dates the earliest fortification to the late ninth and eighth centuries BCE and separates it from much later metalworking.

  
  Locator: Abstract; pp. 265–283; fortification chronology

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