Editing Lincoln, England (section)

===Earliest history===
The earliest origins of Lincoln can be traced to remains of an [[Iron Age]] settlement of round wooden dwellings, discovered by archaeologists in 1972, which have been dated to the 1st century BCE.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.visitlincoln.com/about-lincoln/history-heritage/ |title=History & Heritage of Lincoln – Iron Age, Roman, Medieval, Industrial, Modern {{!}} Visit Lincoln |website=Visit Lincoln |access-date=17 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218025754/https://www.visitlincoln.com/about-lincoln/history-heritage/ |archive-date=18 February 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> It was built by [[Brayford Pool]] on the [[River Witham]] at the foot of a large hill, on which the [[Normans]] later built [[Lincoln Cathedral]] and [[Lincoln Castle]].

The name Lincoln may come from this period, when the settlement is thought to have been named in the [[Brythonic languages|Brittonic language]] of Iron Age Britain's [[Celts|Celtic]] inhabitants as ''Lindon'', "The Pool",<ref name="Matasović2009">{{Cite book |first=Ranko |last=Matasović |title=Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YN_YPQAACAAJ |access-date=12 June 2013 |year=2009 |publisher=Brill Academic Pub |isbn=978-90-04-17336-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629021030/http://books.google.com/books?id=YN_YPQAACAAJ |archive-date=29 June 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> presumably referring to Brayford Pool (compare the etymology of [[Dublin]], from the Gaelic ''dubh linn'' "black pool"). The extent of the original settlement is unknown, as its remains are buried beneath the later Roman and medieval ruins and modern Lincoln.