Iron Age Pig

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The Iron age pig is a hybrid between a wild boar, Sus scrofa and a domestic pig, Sus scrofa domestica in order to reconstruct the European prehistoric pig that existed in ancient Europe thousands of years ago. The project started in the early '80s by crossing a wild boar with a tamworth pig to produce an animal that looks like the pig from long time ago.^{[citation needed]}

Domestic Tamworth pigs are crossbred with wild boar to create ‘Iron Age Pigs’. The hybrids are tamer than wild boar but less tractable than domestic swine and generally become specialist pork sausages. Most of them are bred for the specialist meat trade.