Iron Age

Connected Sites: 26

Definition
WHS whose OUV derives entirely or significantly from Iron Age constructions. The Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The dates and context vary depending on the geographical region.

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Connected Sites

  • Inscribed: 2011
    2.06
    7
    0
    "This period, which coincides with the Scythian Period, reflects the development of a completely horsedependent, herding culture that dominated the steppes of Eurasia. The images are scenes of hunting and riding,." (AB ev)
  • Southern Öland
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.62
    113
    7
    "Large burial grounds from the Iron Age testify to a rich and important pre-history. The present agricultural community has a continuity which partly extends as far back as the Iron Age." - nomination file
  • Plain of Jars
    Inscribed: 2019
    3.51
    60
    8
    used for funerary practices in the Iron Age (AB ev)
  • Rock Art in the Hail Region
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.25
    36
    4
    "The record commences with a massive component of Neolithic artwork, followed by comprehensive Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Historic traditions, all of which used the same localities to create their respective art corpora." (AB Ev)
  • Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.40
    25
    3
    "(...) the rock art bears a unique testimony to Luoyue people's belief system and social life, and are outstanding examples of rock art from the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age." (Nomination file, p. 224)
  • Khami Ruins
    Khami Ruins
    Zimbabwe
    Inscribed: 1986
    2.72
    26
    3
    "The largest concentration of stone walling and terracing at Khami surrounds a prominent hill overlooking the Kame River. This was almost certainly the residence of the Mambo (king) although several ceremonial objects found during excavations suggest that it was also a centre of ritual in the Iron Age town."(see link)
    See www.bulawayo1872.com
  • Dacian Fortresses
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.90
    90
    11
    The hill-fort and its evolved successor, the oppidum, were characteristic of the Late Iron Age in Europe (AB ev)
  • Brú na Bóinne
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.63
    204
    11
    defense ditches around the central mound in Knowth
  • Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.90
    22
    3

    "the first Iron Age empire in the region" (wiki)
  • Mount Mulanje Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.73
    6
    2

    "it has been attested that people were present around the place from at least the Middle Stone Age through Late Stone Age to Iron Age" (ICOMOS ev)
  • Tchogha Zanbil
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.39
    32
    4
    Iranian Iron Age, ca. 1250 BC
  • Tanbaly
    Tanbaly
    Kazakhstan
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.15
    38
    4
    Some petroglyphs date from the Early Iron Age and were made by Sakae, Wusun peoples (AB ev)
  • Qalhat
    Inscribed: 2018
    1.73
    61
    4
    The earliest historic evidence in the ancient city of Qalhat is an Iron Age tomb dating to around 500 BC (AB ev)
  • Petra
    Petra
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.61
    291
    21
    the Iron Age settlement on Umm al Biyara (OUV statement)
  • Niah Caves
    Niah Caves
    Malaysia
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.71
    26
    5
    "Items found at the Niah Cave include Pleistocene chopping tools and flakes, Neolithic axes, adzes, pottery, shell jewellery, boats, mats, then iron tools, ceramics and glass beads dating to the Iron Age." (wiki)
  • Lake Malawi
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.13
    37
    4
    Archaeological evidence points to a long period of human occupation with sites dating back to the Iron Age in the 4th century. (AB ev)
  • High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.82
    107
    5
    Remains were found
  • Hallstatt-Dachstein
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.61
    245
    16
    Halstatt culture was an (early) Iron Age culture
  • Fossil Hominid Sites
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.36
    60
    5
    Makapan Valley - findings at Cave of the Hearths
  • Deer Stone Monuments
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.73
    9
    2
    Bronze Age and Early Iron Age deer stone monuments
  • Ban Chiang
    Ban Chiang
    Thailand
    Inscribed: 1992
    2.40
    61
    6
    "the most recent graves date to the Iron Age" (wiki)
  • Ancient ferrous metallurgy sites
    Inscribed: 2019
    1.95
    3
    1
    examples of technological construction types that illustrate the Iron Age in Western Africa (AB ev)
  • Al Ain
    Al Ain
    United Arab Emirates
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.52
    116
    8
    "Iron Age settlement at Hili Archaeological Park" (AB ev)
  • Talayotic Menorca
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.93
    50
    4
    "from the Bronze Age (1600 BCE) to the Late Iron Age (123 BCE)" (AB ev)
  • Gordion
    Gordion
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.75
    46
    4
    "Most of the finds and the structures that emerged from the excavations at Gordion pertain to the Iron Age." (AB ev)
  • Arslantepe Mound
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.42
    36
    5
    Excavations began in the 1930s, conducted by a French mission headed by L. Delaporte. By investigating the upper part of the mound, Delaporte unearthed the remains of remarkable Iron Age buildings, among which the so-called neo-Assyrian palace (7th century BC) and the well-known Lions' Gate (9th-8th centuries BC). (Nomination Text, p. 37)