7.1 Introduction
The intent of this paper is to outline a brief history of excavation of Iron Age sites in Argyll and how these contribute to our current understanding of the period. A discussion on the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age has not been included at this stage. This is definitely something, however, which merits further work and, as such, is included as one of the research questions in Section 7.6. Given the limited extent of this piece there is no room to repeat the often heated discussions that got us to where we are, although it touches on some of the more important, and in some cases ongoing, discourse. The paper then concentrates on the excavated evidence and suggests where we might take this in the future.