Clothes were mainly wool now but these clever people had learnt how to dye the wool into different colours and then weave
it into patterns. There were lots of different plants or insects to use for various colours. These are some of them they might have used:
Blue Woad, elderberry, sloe, wild pansy
Black Blackberry, oak bark, water lily roots.
Brown Birch bark, larch needles, meadowsweet
Red Kermes (like cochineal), alder, sorrel
Purple Dandelion roots, sea slugs
Green Nettles, privet (leaves and berries)
Yellow Heather, gorse, broom
The wool would be soaked in the dye for weeks and sometimes iron or salt would be addded to make the dye stick to the wool. Men wore tunics and baggy trousers
(Richard said I should say this was madness but I dont know why. See if you can find out what hes on about) with a belt while the women wore long dresses.
Both would use a cloak for extra warmth in cold weather. Cloaks would be fastened round the neck with a brooch. The Iron Age people loved jewellery even more
than the Bronze Age people before them and, although we had moved into a new age, ordinary people still had jewellery made of bronze. A wealthy person or tribal
king would have their jewellery made of gold.