Iron Age

The “Village Gaulois (MEEM)” serves humanitarian purposes. It is managed by the MEEM association and allocates each year 60% of its benefit of July and August to development aid’s actions in favour of the rural populations of the north of the Togo. In 1967, the war in Biafra, Nigeria upsets a teenager who pledges to help when adult.

At the Dünsberg, you would find in the Iron Age a defended Oppidum or hillfort. Probably it plaid an important role until about the year 9 BC when the Roman influence became much bigger in this area. Excavations go back to as early as 1903.

Gods-Graves-History. The Iron Age times of the Hallstatt People are livened up at “Celtic World Frög”. In this area, many grave mounds of that period were found, in one of which a wagon of the dead, made of lead was discovered. Following a path in between the grave mounds, the spectator ends at a show grave, an original mound which is prepared as a showcase.

The Lojsta area on Gotland is famous for its lakes. The Lojsta Slott Manor is taken care of by the Lojsta Slotts Hembygdsförening, founded 1921. They keep the area around Lojsta Slott open and available for outdoor activities.

Ryedale Folk Museum in Hutton-le-Hole is Yorkshire’s leading open-air museum since 1964. It is spread over five acres and digs deep into the history of Ryedale and the North Yorkshire Moors as far back as the Iron Age. In 2008, an Iron Age type roundhouse was constructed on site.

ESCAPE stands for Eceni Study Centre and Permaculture Experience. Here, Steve and Jo Parish (“Past Alive”) focus on an Iron Age tribe known as “Iceni” or “Ecen”, constructing a farmstead depicting the period around 60 AD.

In Ostercappeln, a (re)constructed Iron Age house was built under coordination of Dr. des. Möllers, following the excavations at Holsten-Mündrup in the 1980s by the “Stadt- und Kreisarchäologie Osnabrück”.

In a landscape of dolomite rocks not far from Montpellier, you could find an archaeological open-air museum. The area has been inhabited from the Mind-Neolithic up to the Iron Age. The "Cirque de Mouzère" landscape is breathtaking.

Hadleigh Castle Country Park is owned and managed by Essex County Council, a local authority. Background papers from NCC files that support the SSSI citation for the park specifically mention its use as an educational resource as it is a large, continuous, relatively undisturbed area of varying scientific character with mature habitats where it is still possible to find many of the county’s native plants and animals.

Between the Hjermind Forrest and the River Gudenå at Kællinghøl. You will find a historical centre which consists of a reconstructed Iron Age like longhouse (6th century AD, built in 2002), an oven house, workshops and shelters. This is in the middle of a nature reserve.