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The Iron Age

Iron Age House

During the Iron Age, Warwickshire was dotted with small farmsteads such as the settlement which has been excavated at Wasperton, near Warwick. The main building at this site was a thatched round house where the family and some of the livestock lived. Around it were workshops, storehouses and stock pens.

The whole settlement was surrounded by a deep ditch which kept out wild animals. During times of trouble the population may have taken refuge in one of a number of hillforts such as Meon Hill near Stratford or Oldbury near Nuneaton.
The Iron Age site at Wasperton might have looked like this.


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