Archaeologists have long suspected that the iron occasionally found amongst Bronze Age artifacts had otherworldly origins, but actually testing those weapons and tools proved more challenging than ...

Iron Age people developed some very useful tools to help them in their daily work. Click on these pictures to find out more.

It is clear that we are faced with a problem that will stretch the limitations of our mathematical and computational tools ... perhaps lead us into a new iron age.

Nationally important evidence of Iron Age furnaces and tools have been discovered during the excavation of a hillfort. They were found during a dig at Nesscliffe Hill, near Shrewsbury, in Shropshire.