Crafts & Skills of the Iron Age
5 & 6 September 2026
What was it like to live in an Iron Age village, 2000 years ago?
What crafts would you need to master to make the things that you needed?
What skills would you learn as part of an Iron Age family?
Come and see an expert team of re-enactors, living and working how the Iron Age families would have done.
Everyday Life in the Iron Age
Discover how Iron Age people turned the natural resources around them into fabrics and then clothes, turned animal hides into leather, plants into rope and clay into pots.
See how what they ate, how they cooked and how they made bread, butter and cheese.
Learn about how they made colours and pigments, and used them to paint or tattoo their skin.
Find out how they defended their village against other tribes, and even the Romans.
About the Iron Age Roundhouse
A replica Iron Age roundhouse has been a feature at COAM since the 1980s.
The current structure is the second roundhouse that has been constructed on site. It is based on excavations at Puddlehill near Dunstable in Bedfordshire.
Meet the Re-enactors
Treba Iron-age Reenactment Society are experts in bringing the Iron Age to life.
Event Information
This is a Standard Admission Day
Free entry for COAM Annual Members
Activities take place between 11am and 4pm
General Museum Information
With 45 acres at your disposal, there is plenty to explore, including woodlands and an exciting adventure playground
Dogs on short leads are welcome but must not go inside residential buildings
Light lunches, drinks, cakes and snacks are available to purchase from our Skippings Barn
Sensory backpacks are available to borrow (subject to availability)
Mobility scooters are available to borrow (subject to availability - pre-booking is advised)
Lots of free parking
Photography and filming may take place during this event for the Museum archives and publicity. These photographs and video footage may appear in promotional or educational materials including on our websites, social media pages, newsletters, or in newspapers and magazines. If you do not wish to be photographed, please speak to the photographer.