I Dig Sheffield | Digging around Sheffield and the Peaks

Close up of boar on helmet from Benty Grange

Object glossary

Anglo-Saxon
430-1070 AD. The country was divided into a number of warring kingdoms. The richer people liked gold and silver jewellery. They buried their dead in barrows. Christianity was introduced from the continent and gradually replaced older beliefs.

Iron Age
1000BC-100 AD. In this period the climate began to get worse, and there was a shortage of good land. The first fortified settlements, called hillforts, were built. Iron was used for tools and weapons, and people traded with mainland Europe.

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