 The Iron Age in Europe is characterized by an elaboration of designs in weapons, implements, and utensils.These are no longer cast but hammered into shape, and decoration is elaborate curvilinear rather than simple rectilinear; the forms and character of the ornamentation of the northern European weapons resembles in some respects Roman arms, while in other respects they are peculiar and evidently representative of northern art.The early 1st millennium BC marks the Iron Age in Eastern Europe.