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Length: 28.700 cm (ploughshare)
Length: 28.700 cm (ploughshare)
Length: 28.700 cm (ploughshare)
P&EE 1982 1-3 308, 309, 310
Room 50: Britain and Europe
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.
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