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Daily life in Iron Age Britain
Iron farming tools
These farming tools would have been commonly
used in Iron Age Britain. The curved objects are iron blades of
sickles or pruning hooks. The other object is the iron tip from an
ard, a type of plough used by Iron Age farmers. Only the iron parts
of these tools have survived; the wooden parts have rotted
away.
Apart from axes and
woodworking tools, few farming and domestic tools were made from
metal in Bronze Age Britain. In the Iron Age, iron was increasingly
used for small knives, sickles, plough tips, files, tires and
nails, helping to transform different aspects of everyday
activities on and around the farm or village.