Editing La Tène culture (section)

=== Trade === 
[[File:MNHA - Finds from the Goeblange-Nospelt Celtic Graves (51187043051).jpg|thumb|Grave with trade goods from the [[Titelberg |Titelberg oppidum]], [[Celtic Luxembourg|Luxembourg]], 1st century BC]]

By the Iron Age, trade operated intensively and extensively throughout Europe. Trade within Celtic lands involved raw materials and manufactured goods, with a large increase in the trade of manufactured goods occurring in the last two centuries BC. Goods were mass produced within the ''oppida'' by specialist industrial workers and craftsmen and distributed to surrounding areas. Items such as pottery, iron weapons, bronze vessels and glass jewellery were produced for export. Goods were transported by merchants with packhorses, wagons and on freight boats along rivers, and tolls were charged on trade routes by local rulers or states. Weighing balances and coins are found in both small and large settlements.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vkV8bcgLbiAC&q=the+celtic+world&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=The Celtic World |date=1995 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415146272 |editor-last1=Green |editor-first1=Miranda |chapter=13: Trade and exchange}}</ref> Ships of Celtic design were used for trade with the British Isles and along the Atlantic coast.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal |url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1989/april/veneti-pre-roman-atlantic-sea-power |journal=Naval History |volume=3 |issue=2 |date=1989 |title=The Veneti: A Pre-Roman Atlantic Sea Power |last=Watt |first=D. Cameron}}</ref> Metal production, mining and textile production were noted by the Greek author [[Strabo]], who writes: "among the Petrocorii there are fine iron-works, and also among the Bituriges Cubi; among the Cadurci, linen factories; among the Ruteni, silver mines; and the Gabales, also, have silver mines."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/strabo/4b*.html |title=Strabo, Geography, Book IV Chapter 2| website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}</ref> Exports from La Tène cultural areas to the Mediterranean cultures included [[salt]], [[tin]], [[copper]], [[amber]], [[wool]], [[leather]], [[furs]] and [[gold]], whilst wine, luxury products and materials such as [[coral]] were imported northwards from the Mediterranean region.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vkV8bcgLbiAC&q=the+celtic+world&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=The Celtic World |editor-last1=Green |editor-first1=Miranda |publisher=Routledge |date=1995 |isbn=9780415146272 |chapter=13: Trade and exchange}}</ref>