Iron Age
The Cast Iron broomstick
On a very cold day, in the middle of the ice age, the fairy folk had made a large fire with some orange rocks and wood. They used fairy bellows to get the fire very hot and were amazed to find some hard grey solid at the bottom the next morning.
They made lots of iron after that only to lose it all when the humans did a raid during the summer solstice when they were all out celebrating.
It made a very heavy, hard to handle broomstick which didn’t fly straight and rusted after a couple of months.