Important features of this period include the widespread production of iron artifacts for daily use and the introduction of grey earthenware pottery with a beaten pattern.

Buried iron artifacts may completely rust away in less than 100 years.

He also found that bronze weapons did not occur with iron artifacts - so that each period could be defined by its preferred cutting material.

It is at this moment that it begin the production of iron artifacts, probably intended solely for personal use.

However iron artifacts remained a rarity until the 12th century BC.

Throughout the 7th to 6th centuries BC, iron artifacts remained luxury items reserved for an elite.

It can take years for a crusty iron artifact to be restored.

Archaeological evidence for iron production has often been based on iron artifacts found in the field.

A few corrosion-resistant iron artifacts survive from antiquity.

During work in the 1930s, local people found iron artifacts and Roman coins in the mounds, but these objects have since disappeared.