THE IRON AGE

(1200 B.C. – 600 B.C.)

 IRON AGE (1200 B.C. – 600 B.C.)
✘ In contrast to the Stone Age and the Bronze Age,
development during the Iron Age was much faster
and more visible. It witnessed the widespread use
of iron and iron tools, resulting in greater
prosperity and a huge upsurge in metalwork,
especially around the eastern Mediterranean.

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 IRON AGE (1200 B.C. – 600 B.C.)
✘ People across much of Europe, Asia and parts of
Africa began making tools and weapons from iron
and steel.
✘ They likely saw iron as an inferior metal. Iron tools
and weapons weren’t as hard or durable as their
bronze counterparts.

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 IRON AGE (1200 B.C. – 600 B.C.)
✘ The use of iron became more widespread after
people learned how to make steel, a much harder
metal, by heating iron with carbon. The Hittites
—who lived during the Bronze Age in what is
now Turkey—may have been the first to make
steel.

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 WHEN WAS THE IRON AGE?

✘ The Iron Age began around 1200 B.C. in the

Mediterranean region and Near East with the
collapse of several prominent Bronze Age
civilizations, including the Mycenaean
civilization in Greece and the Hittite Empire in
Turkey.

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 WHEN WAS THE IRON AGE?

✘ Some experts believe that a disruption in trade

routes may have caused shortages of the copper
or tin used to make bronze around this time.
Metal smiths, as a result, may have turned to iron
as an alternative.

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 FAMOUS
ARTWORKS
 WANDSWORT
H
SHIELD
The Wandsworth Shield is a circular
bronze Iron Age shield boss or mount
decorated in La Tène style which was
found in the River Thames at
Wandsworth in London sometime before
1849. Another incomplete bronze shield
mount, sometimes called the Wandsworth
Mask Shield was found at the same time.
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 BALAZOT
E
The Bicha of Balazote is an Iberian
sculpture that was found in the borough
of Balazote in Albacete province, Spain.
Bicha is a Spanish word that means
small nasty creature, like a insect or
snake, something repulsive and that
could hurt you. In this case Bicha is a
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The Ardagh Hoard, best known
for the Ardagh Chalice, is a hoard
of metalwork from the 8th and 9th
centuries. Found in 1868 by 2
young local boys, Jim Quin and
Paddy Flanagan, it is now on
display in the National Museum of
Ireland in Dublin.
ARDAGH
HOARD
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 TARA
BROOCH
The Tara Brooch is a Celtic brooch of
the pseudo-penannular type, made in
650 to 750 AD. It was found in Ireland
in 1850, but, despite its name, not at
Tara but likely near Bettystown on the
coast of County Meath. 
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 GUNDERSTO
The Gundestrup cauldron is a
richly decorated silver vessel, P CAULDRON
thought to date from between 200
BC and 300 AD, or more
narrowly between 150 BC and 1
BC. This places it within the late
La Tène period or early Roman
Iron Age. The cauldron is the
largest known example of
European Iron Age silver work.
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 WARRIOR OF
HIRSCHLANDE
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The Warrior of Hirschlanden is a statue
of a nude ithyphallic warrior made of
sandstone, the oldest known Iron Age
life-size anthropomorphic statue north of
the Alps. It was a production of the
Hallstatt culture, probably dating to the
6th century BC.
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 TRUNDHOLM SUN
CHARIOT
The Trundholm sun chariot, is
a Nordic Bronze Age artifact
discovered in Denmark. It is a
representation of the sun
chariot, a bronze statue of a
horse and a large bronze disk,
which are placed on a device
with spoked wheels.

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 The Great Torc from
Snettisham or Snettisham
Great Torc is a large, Iron Age
electrum torc or neck-ring
that is the most spectacular
object in the Snettisham
Hoard of Iron Age torcs and
other metalwork found near THE GREAT TORC
the village of Snettisham in
Norfolk, East Anglia. FROM
SNETTISHAM
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 BATTERSE
A SHIELD
The Battersea Shield is one of the most
significant pieces of ancient Celtic art
found in Britain. It is a sheet bronze
covering of a wooden shield decorated
in La Tène style. The shield is on
display in the British Museum, and a
replica is housed in the Museum of
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