THE EARLY IRON AGE SETTLEMENT 2800-2600 Years Ago

The availability of iron ore (in the headland) must have attracted settlers from the continent who had the knowledge, skills and equipment to extract the iron. The metal was fashioned into farm implements, nails, knives, swords and spears.

The people lived in timber-framed round houses with thatched roofs and mud-daubed walls. Iron was smelted in clay hearths and ingots and implements were probably traded for pottery, farm produce and wood with settlers on the river Avon and Stour.

Iron smelting