How to Use Iron Age in a Sentence

Iron Age

noun

• 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 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
• The incidence of Down syndrome rose in early Iron Age Spain.
  — Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 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
• Between the walls of an Iron Age roundhouse, nail cleaners and bone spoons were discovered.
  — Lauren Depino, Time, 9 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Like Iron Age, Jongro is a chain, though one with a smaller footprint, at least in America.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• Tables wanting to play teen heroes can pick up Hero High while other groups that want a game set in the grim and gritty world of 90’s comics can use Iron Age as inspiration.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• In its compacted span, the text skips, as if powered by some infernal engine, across eons and eras: from mud hut to modern hovel, from Iron Age to ironclads.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2023
• 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
• According to the researchers, the results reveal that the ancestry of the region was not forged through the movement of Iron Age Italians from Italy, but through some other mechanism.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• There are around 500 of these Iron Age structures scattered throughout the Scottish Highlands, but nobody knows what they were built for, and no one has ever discovered one intact.
  — WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
• They were used functionally, as at their Iron Age inception, to fasten garments.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Two features recur among Iron Age bog bodies: youth and disability.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• The lack of patterns in these graves means that there are likely multiple interpretations about human-animal co-burials from the Late Iron Age.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2024
• 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
• In another project, an Iron Age temple complex discovered near Jerusalem is shedding new light on an ancient biblical city.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2020
• Visitors can see millennia-old rock art created by the San people, while Iron Age kilns are regularly discovered all over the reserve.
  — Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2023
• Numerous legends of ‘sacred kings’ described in Iron Age Ireland and northern Britain were sacrificed if misfortune fell on the community.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 June 2024
• Archaeologists found the foundations of at least 30 Iron Age roundhouses clustered alongside a road—evidence that people had lived here for centuries before the Romans arrived.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2022
• See it The oldest artifacts included some Iron Age chariot fittings, archaeologists said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• Ferreira notes that archaeologists first defined the great material ages of human history—Stone Age, Iron Age, and so on—after examining artifacts in museums.
  — Sam Kean, Science | AAAS, 2 July 2021
• Anchoring his study in Iron Age Greece, with its bustling mercantile economy and conflicting embraces of both slavery and personal autonomy, Nicolson traces the emergence of several key philosophical concepts.
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024