Arras culture

The Arras culture is an archaeological culture of the middle and late Iron Age, the ( East Yorkshire ) has been confined in England mostly on the East Riding of Yorkshire area. It has its name from a discovered in the 19th century burial ground in Arras, four miles east of Market Weighton.

Feature of the culture burial customs, as they are not found elsewhere in the British Isles. They differ from those of contemporary British tribes.

• Through the use of large body burial grounds, while the other practice in England was a form of excarnation.
• By the decisions of rectangular trenches and with a hill covered graves.
• By car tombs like that of Wetwang.

They have strong resemblance to burials in the Seine valley and northern France. It has been concluded that the Parisii, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the region for the New Age, were with contacts for the La Tène culture in northern Gaul and Belgium, the members of an immigrant Celtic upper class. The only difference to the local burials is the lack of fine pottery in the richest British graves.

The analogy was explained by an approximately 450 BC was migration from the north of the continent to eastern England. However, it is now considered more likely that the takeover was completed by a foreign elite, without a large-scale resettlement of the population. An alternative explanation is that the carriers of the Arras culture were locals who impersonated a continental practice to increase their prestige.