In the younger Iron Age, the La Tene Age-400 B.C-0 A. D., when iron was already commonly used metal, the territory was settled by the Celtic tribes. They fully exploited the strategically advantageous location of the Bratislava gate. The concentration of archaeological finds in the region around Bratislava, testify to the fact that in the transition period between the two eras a significant economic and administrative center originated here. At the point where river Morava flows into the Danube, they built fortified settlements on both banks of Danube, the Austrian Braunsberg and Devin on the Slovak side. On the territory of present day Bratislava they founded a larger settlement of municipal nature, so called "oppidium" that included also the settlement of the Castle Hill.The Roman settlement on the Castle mount dates to the end of 1st century A. D. After the territory fell under the rule of Germanic tribes that came to conflict with the Roman empire.

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