The evidence for textile production in the Iron Age

Examines the proposition that spinning is more common on settlements, weaving in hillforts, and finds it deficient. The bias towards data from hillforts is only slowly being righted; and large weights could be from looms, thatch, or nets. At Danebury there is considerable variation over time in ratios of spindles to loomweights; and it cannot be said that cloth production is heavily evidenced on most Wessex sites.