This week we will
be looking at the Iron Age and thinking about how their lives were different to
life in 2015. What can you find out about Iron Age life? Write a comment below.
In the Iron Age (750BC-43AD), the houses were similar to Stone Age houses as they both had thatched roofs and round bottoms made of daub (clay, soil, straw and animal manure) and wattle. The daub and wattle were used to weatherproof the hut. The daily diet for most people was bread, porridge and stew. Fresh meat roasted over an open fire, or boiled in large metal cauldrons would be used in stews. Evidence shows that beef, pork and mutton or lamb were the most common types of meat eaten, but deer, rabbit, horse and even dog were also eaten. A form of beer would have been the drink for all members of the family, even children. People in the Iron Age played board games with glass pieces. Children, who during the day would have helped in the house, may have used their free time by practicing their skill at the slingshot - a common weapon in the Iron Age.
Iron age was a period known for 800 years.Wheel thrown pottery was being made,and people started to live in lager and more settled communities. was made up of individual houses of stone with garden plots, clustered along a street.roundhouse would have been made of timbers, which were interwoven with old wood - usually hazel, oak, ash or Pollard pillow.In another part of the house would have been an weaving loom.
The Iron Age in Britain lasted from about 700 BC to the Roman invasion of AD 43.It was called Iron Age because it was the time when people began to make things out of a metal called iron. 2.Iron was tougher than bronze and could be shaped into finer and sharper objects.The oldest known article of iron shaped by hammering is a dagger found in Egypt that was made before 1350 BC. During the Iron Age there were some people called Celts.
The Iron Age is the period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron.This is the name given to the time period where iron became the preferred choice of metal for making tools. In Britain the end of the Iron Age is linked to the spread of Roman culture following the Roman invasion of 43 AD.The period known as the Iron Age lasted in Britain for about 800 years .By the end of the Iron Age, amongst other things, coinage had been introduced, wheel thrown pottery was being made, there was an increased interest in personal appearance, people had started to live in larger and more settled communities.
The iron age (800 BC-43 AD) was the period after the Bronze Age when people constantly used iron and steel. As the Iron Age progressed through the millennium more ideas for more types of arts raised like pottery was starting to become popular. The Iron Age people are sometimes referred to as celts, but other groups are also known from Europe like such as, German and Iberians. The people of Iron Age in Europe were farmers, wheat barley and beans were harvested in small feilds and people reared animals like cattle, sheep and pigs.
The Iron Age was in Great Britain,lasted about 700 BC. Million of people who lived in the Iron Age are anonymous, in the last 100 years some of their names are known to us. From writing of foreigners or from inscriptions on coins.
The Iron Age was the period after the Bronze Age.It lasted for about 700BC - 43AD.The Iron Age was called this because of the constant use of iron.
Unlike bronze which is poured, iron is worked into shape by repeatedly heating and battering against an anvil, a process called smithing.
It is also much harder and has more durability than bronze and keeps a sharp edge for longer.
It was used to make;ploughs to farm their fields and grow more crops,armour like shields and helmets to help protect them better in battles than the older bronze ones could,coins to help buy and sell their crops and iron tools,Swords to help them hunt and protect themselves.
The Iron age was a period of time after the Bronze age. It was given its name because of the fantastic use of Iron.
The Iron age [800 BC-43 AD] contuinued many of the features of the Bronze age. Using Iron for tools did not replace bronze, bronze continued being used along side Iron. Iron and steel were used to make many things like: saws, axes, chisels, hammers and scythes. By the end of the Iron age there were huge develoments like coins were made of gold,silves and bronze.
Iron Age was a peroid known for 800 years. The Iron Age in Britain lasted from about 700 BC to the Roman invasion of AD 43. Iron Age settlements start appearing in 150 BC. In Iron Age Metal coins are used for the first time. First Iron Age hillforts constructed in 700 BC. The Iron Age was a time in early human history when people began to use tools and weapons made of iron. The Iron Age started and ended at different times in different places. The use of iron brought important changes to people's lives.
The knowledge of how to get iron from rock and how to make iron tools spread quickly from the Middle East to Egypt and Greece. The Iron Age eventually spread as far as West Africa, northern Europe, India, and East Asia. Australia and the Americas did not have an Iron Age. European settlers brought ironworking to those places much later.
1. The Roman name for the inhabitants of the British Isles was Britons. The Britons were part of the Celtic people who lived throughout Northern Europe at this time.
2. Iron was tougher than bronze and could be shaped into finer and sharper objects. It required smithing (heating and hammering) to make into tools and implements.
3. The manufacture, casting and trading of bronze had required special skills and made those people who possessed these skills wealthy and powerful. Iron was more readily available than bronze and was easier to work.
4. Iron ploughs called ards were more efficient than earlier bronze or wooden ploughs. This meant they could till heavier soils so more land could be used for farming.
5. As farming became more productive the population began to rise.
6. One of the most important and time-saving inventions of the Iron Age was the rotatory quern which was used for grinding grain to make flour. The grain was placed between two circular stones and the top stone was turned or rotated using a handle.
7. The diets people ate, the houses they lived in and the customs they followed varied depending on which part of the country they inhabited.
8. Most Iron Age people worked and lived on small farms and their lives were governed by the changing of the seasons.
9. Grain was stored in granaries or in underground vaults. Meat or fish could be preserved by salting or smoking.
10. As people began to produce and store more grain than they could use, they were able to trade the surplus. Land ownership and grain production became the way to gain wealth and power.
The Iron Age in Britain lasted from about 700 BC to the Roman invasion of AD 43. The Iron is much harder than bronze and keeps a cutting edge for longer. The Iron Age is called Iron Age because it was the time when people began to make things out of a metal called iron.They used the iron to make ploughs,armours,and coins.The Iron Age started and ended at different times and different places.
Almost everyone farmed in the Iron age and that goes of woman and children to. The woman also took care of the food and made sure that there was enough woman also had many children.
The Iron Age is the period of European history that dates from around 800 BC to the Roman Conquest when iron was first used instead of bronze to make tools and weapons.The people of Iron Age Europe were farmers. Wheat, barley and beans were harvested in small fields and people reared animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs. Other important resources include wood for fuel and building houses, and salt for preserving meat.Some Iron Age people made highly decorated metal objects, which we call Early Celtic or La Tène art. IRON FARMING TOOLS These are tools used by farmers 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.
1.Iron age is called Iron age because the time when they were constanly using iron and the name suited them.
2.children don't realy much iron till there over 23 years old and children under 23 had to help or draw on the wall (not in caves).
3.Iron age was after when bronz age started stone age people used to hate bronze age because the bronze age were showing off that they got the goods and the best tools in human history.
4.Iron age used to make iro tools to about 3 hours a dar because over 1,000,000 people in iron age all need tools but children under 23 years old, they get sheilds
The average life expectancy at birth was 25 years. Iron Age Britons played board games with glass pieces Britons are iron age people people from the British isles. Only about a quarter of children born during the Iron Age reached adulthood. Iron age Britons ate porridge and rye.
The Iron Age was called the Iron Age because people used to make tools and weapons out of Iron.
1. The Iron Age started around the Middle east and south eastern Europe, it started there in about 1200BC.
2. The use of Iron brought important changes to peoples lives to make stronger tools and made farming much more easier.
3.The Iron Age started after people learned to remove iron from rock using a very hot fire. Iron was better than bronze for tools and weapons because it was harder and stronger.
In the Iron Age (750BC-43AD), the houses were similar to Stone Age houses as they both had thatched roofs and round bottoms made of daub (clay, soil, straw and animal manure) and wattle. The daub and wattle were used to weatherproof the hut. The daily diet for most people was bread, porridge and stew. Fresh meat roasted over an open fire, or boiled in large metal cauldrons would be used in stews. Evidence shows that beef, pork and mutton or lamb were the most common types of meat eaten, but deer, rabbit, horse and even dog were also eaten. A form of beer would have been the drink for all members of the family, even children. People in the Iron Age played board games with glass pieces. Children, who during the day would have helped in the house, may have used their free time by practicing their skill at the slingshot - a common weapon in the Iron Age.
ReplyDeleteIron age was a period known for 800 years.Wheel thrown pottery was being made,and people started to live in lager and more settled communities. was made up of individual houses of stone with garden plots, clustered along a street.roundhouse would have been made of timbers, which were interwoven with old wood - usually hazel, oak, ash or Pollard pillow.In another part of the house would have been an weaving loom.
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ReplyDeleteThe Iron Age in Britain lasted from about 700 BC to the Roman invasion of AD 43.It was called Iron Age because it was the time when people began to make things out of a metal called iron. 2.Iron was tougher than bronze and could be shaped into finer and sharper objects.The oldest known article of iron shaped by hammering is a dagger found in Egypt that was made before 1350 BC. During the Iron Age there were some people called Celts.
The Iron Age is the period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron.This is the name given to the time period where iron became the preferred choice of metal for making tools. In Britain the end of the Iron Age is linked to the spread of Roman culture following the Roman invasion of 43 AD.The period known as the Iron Age lasted in Britain for about 800 years .By the end of the Iron Age, amongst other things, coinage had been introduced, wheel thrown pottery was being made, there was an increased interest in personal appearance, people had started to live in larger and more settled communities.
ReplyDeleteThe iron age (800 BC-43 AD) was the period after the Bronze Age when people constantly used iron and steel. As the Iron Age progressed through the millennium more ideas for more types of arts raised like pottery was starting to become popular. The Iron Age people are sometimes referred to as celts, but other groups are also known from Europe like such as, German and Iberians. The people of Iron Age in Europe were farmers, wheat barley and beans were harvested in small feilds and people reared animals like cattle, sheep and pigs.
ReplyDeleteThe Iron Age was in Great Britain,lasted about 700 BC. Million of people who lived in the Iron Age are anonymous, in the last 100 years some of their names are known to us. From writing of foreigners or from inscriptions on coins.
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The Iron Age was the period after the Bronze Age.It lasted for about 700BC - 43AD.The Iron Age was called this because of the constant use of iron.
Unlike bronze which is poured, iron is worked into shape by repeatedly heating and battering against an anvil, a process called smithing.
It is also much harder and has more durability than bronze and keeps a sharp edge for longer.
It was used to make;ploughs to farm their fields and grow more crops,armour like shields and helmets to help protect them better in battles than the older bronze ones could,coins to help buy and sell their crops and iron tools,Swords to help them hunt and protect themselves.
The Iron age was a period of time after the Bronze age. It was given its name because of the fantastic use of Iron.
ReplyDeleteThe Iron age [800 BC-43 AD] contuinued many of the features of the Bronze age. Using Iron for tools did not replace bronze, bronze continued being used along side Iron. Iron and steel were used to make many things like: saws, axes, chisels, hammers and scythes. By the end of the Iron age there were huge develoments like coins were made of gold,silves and bronze.
IRON AGE
ReplyDeleteIron Age was a peroid known for 800 years. The Iron Age in Britain lasted from about 700 BC to the Roman invasion of AD 43. Iron Age settlements start appearing in 150 BC. In Iron Age Metal coins are used for the first time. First Iron Age hillforts constructed in 700 BC. The Iron Age was a time in early human history when people began to use tools and weapons made of iron. The Iron Age started and ended at different times in different places. The use of iron brought important changes to people's lives.
The knowledge of how to get iron from rock and how to make iron tools spread quickly from the Middle East to Egypt and Greece. The Iron Age eventually spread as far as West Africa, northern Europe, India, and East Asia. Australia and the Americas did not have an Iron Age. European settlers brought ironworking to those places much later.
ReplyDelete1. The Roman name for the inhabitants of the British Isles was Britons. The Britons were part of the Celtic people who lived throughout Northern Europe at this time.
ReplyDelete2. Iron was tougher than bronze and could be shaped into finer and sharper objects. It required smithing (heating and hammering) to make into tools and implements.
3. The manufacture, casting and trading of bronze had required special skills and made those people who possessed these skills wealthy and powerful. Iron was more readily available than bronze and was easier to work.
4. Iron ploughs called ards were more efficient than earlier bronze or wooden ploughs. This meant they could till heavier soils so more land could be used for farming.
5. As farming became more productive the population began to rise.
6. One of the most important and time-saving inventions of the Iron Age was the rotatory quern which was used for grinding grain to make flour. The grain was placed between two circular stones and the top stone was turned or rotated using a handle.
7. The diets people ate, the houses they lived in and the customs they followed varied depending on which part of the country they inhabited.
8. Most Iron Age people worked and lived on small farms and their lives were governed by the changing of the seasons.
9. Grain was stored in granaries or in underground vaults. Meat or fish could be preserved by salting or smoking.
10. As people began to produce and store more grain than they could use, they were able to trade the surplus. Land ownership and grain production became the way to gain wealth and power.
The Iron Age in Britain lasted from about 700 BC to the Roman invasion of AD 43.
ReplyDeleteThe Iron is much harder than bronze and keeps a cutting edge for longer. The Iron Age is called Iron Age because it was the time when people began to make things out of a metal called iron.They used the iron to make ploughs,armours,and coins.The Iron Age started and ended at different times and different places.
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ReplyDeleteAlmost everyone farmed in the Iron age and that goes of woman and children to. The woman also took care of the food and made sure that there was enough woman also had many children.
The Iron Age is the period of European history that dates from around 800 BC to the Roman Conquest when iron was first used instead of bronze to make tools and weapons.The people of Iron Age Europe were farmers. Wheat, barley and beans were harvested in small fields and people reared animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs. Other important resources include wood for fuel and building houses, and salt for preserving meat.Some Iron Age people made highly decorated metal objects, which we call Early Celtic or La Tène art.
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These are tools used by farmers 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.
* Iron ploughs were used to clear land for farming.
ReplyDelete*an invention called the rotatory quern was made to grind grain to make flour.
*Their diet, houses & customs depended on the inhabitants.
*Most people of the iron age were farmers.
*They preserved food by salting or smoking it.
*they stored their grain under the ground in chambers called: granaries
1.Iron age is called Iron age because the time when they were constanly using iron and the name suited them.
ReplyDelete2.children don't realy much iron till there over 23 years old and children under 23 had to help or draw on the wall (not in caves).
3.Iron age was after when bronz age started stone age people used to hate bronze age because the bronze age were showing off that they got the goods and the best tools in human history.
4.Iron age used to make iro tools to about 3 hours a dar because over 1,000,000 people in iron age all need tools but children under 23 years old, they get sheilds
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5 facts about the stone age.
ReplyDeleteThe average life expectancy at birth was 25 years.
Iron Age Britons played board games with glass pieces
Britons are iron age people people from the British isles.
Only about a quarter of children born during the Iron Age reached adulthood.
Iron age Britons ate porridge and rye.
The Iron Age was called the Iron Age because people used to make tools and weapons out of Iron.
ReplyDelete1. The Iron Age started around the Middle east and south eastern Europe, it started there in about 1200BC.
2. The use of Iron brought important changes to peoples lives to make stronger tools and made farming much more easier.
3.The Iron Age started after people learned to remove iron from rock using a very hot fire. Iron was better than bronze for tools and weapons because it was harder and stronger.
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