Iron Age
noun
: the period of human culture characterized by the smelting of iron and its use in industry beginning somewhat before 1000 b.c. in western Asia and Egypt
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Who were these Iron Age sea raiders?
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2025
Based on carbon dating the cords and caulk, the boat was likely built somewhere 381 and 161 BCE, confirming that the boat was built in the pre-Roman Iron Age.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Dec. 2025
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
At the site, archaeologists uncovered artifacts from daily life in Iron Age Britain, including bronze brooches, a bone comb and a bangle made of bronze.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Nov. 2025
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2025
Based on carbon dating the cords and caulk, the boat was likely built somewhere 381 and 161 BCE, confirming that the boat was built in the pre-Roman Iron Age.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Dec. 2025
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
At the site, archaeologists uncovered artifacts from daily life in Iron Age Britain, including bronze brooches, a bone comb and a bangle made of bronze.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Nov. 2025
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