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This article presents the latest advances in the field of archaeometric studies for iron based artefacts. These are placed in line with the approaches taken for many years in an interdisciplinary way on both metal production sites and on the objects themselves. These advances, based on the coupling of chemical analyzes with appropriate statistical inferences enable to determine the process for obtaining metal (direct or indirect) but also to verify the assumptions of production sites. This latter approach, however, requires the gathering of important reference datatsets based on analysis of slag from production areas. Finally, it is now possible to date the ferrous objects by radiocarbon technique. All these advances paved the way for major spatial and chronological studies in the coming years.