Iron Age

Iron Age is the name given to the last of the three stages, stone, bronze, iron, which mark the prehistoric development of most now civilised peoples. These, of course, occurred at different periods, and were of different duration in different cases. These are named from the material employed in making cutting instruments and weapons. The forms of instruments are freer than in the bronze period, and rectilineal gives places to free curvilineal decoration; this age is marked, too, by the introduction of writing and the beginning of literary and historic records.

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Iron City, Iron Crown, Iron Duke, Iron Gate, Iron Hand