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The Celts arrived in Britain and Ireland around 500 BC and within a few hundred years, Ireland's Bronze Age culture had all but disappeared, and Celtic Iron Age culture was in place across the entire island. The Celts had discovered iron, which had been introduced to them in Europe around 1000 to 700 BC, giving them the technological advantage to spread as they did. Iron was a far superior metal to bronze, being stronger and more durable. On the other hand, it required much hotter fires to extract it from its ore and so it took a fair degree of skill to use iron.

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