How to Use Iron Age in a Sentence

Iron Age

noun
  • Who were these Iron Age sea raiders?
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Quartz was even utilized in Iron Age pottery.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Was it related to an elite Iron Age burial?
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The trumpet is one of many Iron Age items that have turned up across Britain in the past year.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Over the summer, three men found 15 Iron Age gold coins in a field in Wales.
    — Gretchen Smail, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • For the first time ever, a trove of Iron Age gold coins has been discovered in Wales.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The findings date back to the late Iron Age—a pivotal time in the region’s history.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The researchers think the helmet dates to Denmark’s Late Iron Age.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Between the walls of an Iron Age roundhouse, nail cleaners and bone spoons were discovered.
    — Lauren Depino, Time, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Scientists believe the skeletons could date back to the second Iron Age.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • There is evidence of Iron Age dwelling in the south and a Roman Villa in the north.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The property is also home to an Iron Age fort called Dunskirloch.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Three were from babies that likely did not survive to birth, discovered in Iron Age sites in Spain.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The first hosts the bison along with Iron Age pigs (a hybrid of a wild boar and a domestic pig) and Exmoor ponies.
    — Victoria Turk, Wired, 19 July 2022
  • Like Iron Age, Jongro is a chain, though one with a smaller footprint, at least in America.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
  • They were used functionally, as at their Iron Age inception, to fasten garments.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The structures – not just the fortifications of the wealthy and the powerful – were key to how these Iron Age people lived.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 May 2022
  • The museum had just opened two exhibitions on gold artifacts and the Nordic Iron Age. Bore was required by law to turn over the relics, but he and the farmer who owned the land will be given a reward for the discovery.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Very little is known about funerary practices in Iron Age Britain, since few human remains have survived.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
  • The star of the cache was a near-complete Iron Age battle trumpet, or carnyx — used to blare eerie sounds in battle and rally troops against the enemy.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In the 13th century, it was thought to be the capital of a civilization that thrived during the late Iron Age.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2024
  • The areas had large pieces of Middle and Late Iron Age pottery, as well as other cooking vessels and a spindle whorl.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
  • For a beginner hobbyist to find nine of the Nordic Iron Age trinkets buried in a pile, two months after buying a metal detector?
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • There is still a lot of research to be done on the rock, which will provide more insight about the use of runes in the early Iron Age and the custom of making rune stones, Zilmer said.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • This gels with other patterns in dice asymmetry that the researchers found over centuries of time, including in preceding Iron Age periods.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Other Iron Age buildings—a cluster of roundhouses and a pantry—have been found at the site, as well as a Roman villa containing the remains of a tiny pet dog.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In 1999, a farmer stumbled upon an Iron Age grave on Bryher, a small island southwest of England.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • The scrap of papyrus — scarcely larger than a postage stamp with four lines of angular script — is one of just a few from the region in the Late Iron Age, archaeologists said.
    — Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In Scotland, construction workers recently found the remains of Iron Age roundhouses while working on a sewer project.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2026

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