February
04
/ 2024
Researchers have been “completely blown away” by the uncovering of an Iron Age workshop belonging to a "master blacksmith" in the English countryside, complete with bellow protectors and small metal fragments created as red-hot iron was hammered into shape. Dating back approximately 2,700 years, the workshop, known as a "smithy," was unearthed during excavations in Oxfordshire, spearheaded by the excavation company DigVentures. Radiocarbon dating suggests that it was operational between 770 and 515 BC, marking the onset of the Iron Age in Britain. 2,800-year-old Hallstatt Swords Rewrite Bronze to Iron Age Technological Leap Iron Age Skull Suggests Sinister Story of Severed Heads Tossed into Wetlands [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"115567","attributes":{"alt":"The area of Wittenham Clumps where the blacksmith workshop has been found. (DigVentures)","class":"media-image","height":"343","style":"width: 610px; height
