- Are there regional artefact characteristics or typologies within the region?
- What was the role of decoration and colour in Iron Age societies?
- What evidence for movement of materials, objects, ideas, and people do we have?
- What was the nature of the relationship between local communities and Rome?
- What was the life-cycle of Roman material on Iron Age sites, such as the reuse of pottery and the melting down of objects?
- How can we further utilise the significant site at Traprain Law to develop our understanding of the economic, social and political aspects of the area?
- What do we know about hybrid forms of material culture, such as glass bangles and Roman Iron Age/Romano-British metalwork?
- What other economic concerns (beyond being farmers) were there in the Iron Age? For example, competitive display; gift exchange and indebtedness; woodland management, mineral exploitation; metallurgy; regional and extramural trade.