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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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.
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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
Johnson, who has studied Bronze and Iron Age pastoralist societies of the Eurasian steppe, was not involved with the new research.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
Three narratives intersect—a young woman of Iron Age Briton begins her first year as village Druid during the start of Roman occupation; Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is asked to examine a 2,000-year-old body preserved in an English peat bog; and that of the peat moss itself.
—Audiofile Magazine, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2025
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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
Johnson, who has studied Bronze and Iron Age pastoralist societies of the Eurasian steppe, was not involved with the new research.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
Three narratives intersect—a young woman of Iron Age Briton begins her first year as village Druid during the start of Roman occupation; Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is asked to examine a 2,000-year-old body preserved in an English peat bog; and that of the peat moss itself.
—Audiofile Magazine, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Iron Age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Iron%20Age. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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