Up to 1709, furnaces could only use charcoal to produce iron. However, wood (which is what charcoal is made from) was becoming more expensive, as forests were being cleared for farmland and timber.

In his paper published in the journal Antiquity, Bérangère Redon offers background information surrounding ... as evidenced by heavy iron shackles found two years ago near what was once a ...

(CNN) — A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. Now known as the Melsonby Hoard ...

We have new houses in the background, which were built about ten years ago, a medieval church just behind it, and we have evidence of an Iron Age roundhouse over there. The archaeologists have ...