Imported Ironwares

The iron had been one of the most traded materials in the Korean Peninsula at the prehistoric period. It is not only used to manufacture appliances but also used to symbolize power and authority. For the settlers in Jeju where had no iron resource region, iron had always been an important trading item. These iron artifacts show that they were imported and used from the early Iron Age since before the chiefdom of Tamna hadn't yet founded. The iron artifacts displayed here, sword, spear, chisel-like weapon, fern-shaped ornament, and arrowheads, were excavated at an ancient tomb in Yongdam-dong of Jeju.