The Iron Age in Britain started as the Bronze Age finished ... The invention of the iron-tipped plough made cultivating crops in heavy clay soils possible for the first time.

Ards were used by the Celts to plough fields. Unlike modern ploughs ... and this criss-cross pattern is visible in aerial photographs of Iron Age settlements.

Ransomes ploughs could be pulled by horses, oxen or even elephants!The self-sharpening chilled cast-iron plough share, patented in 1803, was discovered accidentally by Robert Ransome when he ...

The Iron Age population also made use of these rocks in their creations, as evidenced by a cache discovered in Poland. A ...