Little has been found in Norway dating…
100 CE to 243 CE
The dead were cremated, and their graves contain few burial goods.
During the first four centuries CE, the people of Norway are in contact with Roman-occupied Gaul.
About seventy Roman bronze cauldrons, often used as burial urns, have been found.
Contact with the civilized countries farther south brings a knowledge of runes; the oldest known Norwegian runic inscription dates from the third century.
At this time, the amount of settled area in the country increases, a development that can be traced by coordinated studies of topography, archaeology, and place-names.
The oldest root names, such as nes, vik, and bø ("cape," "bay," and "farm"), are of great antiquity, dating perhaps from the Bronze Age, whereas the earliest of the groups of compound names with the suffixes vin ("meadow") or heim ("settlement"), as in Bjǫrgvin (Bergen) or Sǿheim (Seim), usually date from the first century CE.
Archaeologists will first make the decision to divide the Iron Age of Northern Europe into distinct pre-Roman and Roman Iron Ages after Emil Vedel unearths a number of Iron Age artefacts in 1866 on the island of Bornholm.
They do not exhibit the same permeating Roman influence seen in most other artifacts from the early centuries CE, indicating that parts of northern Europe had not yet come into contact with the Romans at the beginning of the Iron Age.
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