HISTORY hunters gathered in Hadleigh Park to learn about secrets of the Iron Age.
Visitors were fascinated by the reconstruction of a roundhouse, belonging to a chieftain, from the late Iron Age – around 2,000 years ago.
Guests learned that the iron on display was, due to the difficulty of producing high-quality iron, a symbol of the chieftain’s wealth and status.
There was also a talk on making charcoal, without which the iron of which the era was named after, would not have been possible to forge.
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