Iron-Agers loved a pig trotter festival

摘要

It wasn't so much bring a bottle to British Iron Age parties, as bring a pig's leg. At a site in south Wales people apparently feasted almost exclusively on the right forelegs of pigs - a mysterious ritual they kept up for centuries. The dawn of the Iron Age in Britain, beginning about 2900 years ago, was a time of upheaval. The social order in the preceding centuries was based around trade in bronze artefacts - but bronze suddenly lost its value, leading to cultural and economic collapse across Europe and Asia.