I didn't know what to expect, the morning I followed the brown 'heritage' signs to Danebury Iron Age hillfort.

I had just returned from Greece on an overnight flight and was driving west on the A 303 when I realised I was going to fall asleep at the wheel. That was when I spotted the brown sign, and got safely off the main road. It was further from the A303 than I had expected, but when I got there I found Danebury a delight. Mind you, it helped that the weather was warm and sunny. After parking the car I walked across an expanse of grassland up to the hill. The site had been thoroughly excavated under Barry Cunliffe, and was excellently presented. The paths were well maintained, and interpretation boards with reconstruction paintings were just where you needed them.

Now you can see a video, almost 20 minutes long, about Danebury and life in the Iron Age on the Archaeology Channel site. I don't know how long it will be there, so if you think it might be useful in teaching Roman Britain, look at it now. You can buy the video, they say. You choose between 56K (modem) and 300K (broadband). The sound is fine in both versions, but obviously the 56K version is a very small size of picture, and if you watch it on full screen the quality is wretched. The broadband version comes up nicely full-screen. You might even get away with projecting it to show to a class.

Barry Cunliffe and Miranda Aldhouse-Green provide expert comment on the structure of the hill-fort and particularly on the religion and ritual that was integral to daily life. I think it would be useful to fill out the picture of the Celtic society that the Romans found, and changed.