Bronze Age Britain is an era of
British history
The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocene, the current geological epoch, which star ...
that spanned from until . Lasting for approximately 1,700 years, it was preceded by the era of
Neolithic Britain and was in turn followed by the period of
Iron Age Britain
The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ir ...
. Being categorised as the
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...
, it was marked by the use of
copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...
and then
bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...
by the prehistoric Britons, who used such metals to fashion tools.
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ...
in the Bronze Age also saw the widespread adoption of
agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...
.
During the British Bronze Age, large
megalithic monuments similar to those from the Late Neolithic continued to be constructed or modified, including such sites as
Avebury,
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric Megalith, megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, to ...
,
Silbury Hill and
Must Farm. That has been described as a time "when elaborate ceremonial practices emerged among some communities of subsistence agriculturalists of western Europe".
History
Early Bronze Age (EBA), c. 2500–1500 BC

There is no clear consensus on the date for the beginning of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. Some sources give a date as late as 2000 BC,
[Bradley, ''Prehistory of Britain and Ireland'', p. 183.] and others set 2200 BC as the demarcation between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.
[Pollard, "Construction of Prehistoric Britain", in Pollard (ed.), ''Prehistoric Britain'', p. 9.] The period from 2500 BC to 2000 BC has been called the "Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age" in recognition of the difficulty of exactly defining the boundary.
[ Francis Pryor, '' Britain BC'', p. 226.] Some archaeologists recognise a British Chalcolithic when copper was used between the 25th and the 22nd centuries BC, but others do not because production and use were on a small scale.
*2500–2000 BC:
Mount Pleasant Phase, Early
Bell Beaker culture: copper+tin.
*2100–1900 BC: Late Beaker: knives, tanged spearheads (
Bush Barrow;
Wessex I;
Overton Period).
*1800–1600 BC: Fargo Phase (see correction at
Bedd Branwen Period); burials.
Middle Bronze Age (MBA), 1500–1000 BC
*1500–1300 BC: Acton Park Phase: palstaves, socketed spearheads; copper+tin, also lead.
*1300–1200 BC:
Knighton Heath Period; "
rapiers."
*1200–1000 BC: Early
Urnfield
The Urnfield culture () was a late Bronze Age culture of Central Europe, often divided into several local cultures within a broader Urnfield tradition. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns, which ...
;
Wilburton-Wallington Phase.
Late Bronze Age (LBA), 1000–700 BC
*1000–900 BC: Late Urnfield: socketed axes, palstaves (also lead).
*800–700 BC:
Ewart Park Phase,
Llyn Fawr Phase: leaf-shaped swords.
In Ireland, the final
Dowris phase of the Late Bronze Age appears to decline in about 600 BC, but
iron metallurgy does not appear until about 550 BC.
Development
The Bell Beaker culture

Around 2500 BC, a new pottery style arrived in Great Britain: the
Bell Beaker culture. Beaker pottery appears in the
Mount Pleasant Phase (2700–2000 BC), along with flat axes and the burial practice of
inhumation. People of this period were responsible for building
Seahenge, along with the later phases of
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric Megalith, megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, to ...
.
Silbury Hill was also built in the early Beaker period.
Movement of continental Europeans brought new people to the islands from the continent. Recent tooth enamel isotope research on bodies found in early Bronze Age graves around Stonehenge indicates that at least some of the new arrivals came from the area of modern
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. The Beaker culture displayed different behaviours from the earlier
Neolithic people and cultural change was significant, including the introduction of copper and gold metalworking after c. 2500 BC. Many of the early
henge
A henge can be one of three related types of Neolithic Earthworks (archaeology), earthwork. The essential characteristic of all three is that they feature a ring-shaped bank and ditch, with the ditch inside the bank. Because the internal ditches ...
sites seem to have been adopted by the newcomers.

Furthermore, a fundamentally different approach to burying the dead began. In contrast to the Neolithic practice of communal burials, the Bronze Age society undergoes an apparent shift towards focusing on to the individual, rather on the ancestors as a collective. For example, in the Neolithic era, a large
chambered cairn or
long barrow was used to house the dead. The 'Early Bronze Age' saw people buried in individual
barrows, also commonly known and marked on modern British
Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...
maps as tumuli, or sometimes in
cists covered with
cairn
A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the (plural ).
Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehistory, t ...
s. They were often buried with a
beaker alongside the body. However, even though customs changed, barrows and burial mounds continued to be used during the Bronze Age, with smaller tombs often dug into the primary mounds.
There has been debate amongst archaeologists as to whether the "Beaker people" were a race of people that
migrated to Britain ''en masse'' from the continent or whether a Beaker cultural "package" of goods and behaviour, which eventually spread across most of Western Europe, diffused to Britain's existing inhabitants through trade across tribal boundaries. However one recent study (2017) suggests a major genetic shift in late Neolithic/early Bronze Age Britain and up to 90% of Britain's Neolithic gene pool may have been replaced with the coming of a people genetically similar to the Beaker people of the
Lower Rhine region (modern Netherlands/central-western Germany), which had a high proportion of
steppe ancestry. According to the evolutionary geneticist
Ian Barnes, "Following the Beaker spread, there was a population in Britain that for the first time had ancestry and skin and eye pigmentation similar to Britons today".
The most famous site in Britain from this period is
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric Megalith, megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, to ...
, which had its Neolithic form elaborated extensively. Many barrows surround it and an unusual number of 'rich' burials can be found nearby, such as the
Amesbury Archer and the later
Bush Barrow.
Close similarities have been noted between Stonehenge and the
Pömmelte circular enclosure in central Germany, which was built by Bell Beaker people around 2300 BC.
Large
timber circles in Britain such as
Woodhenge, near to Stonehenge, are similarly dated to the early Beaker period or just before the Beaker period. Some researchers have suggested that Woodhenge may have been a monumental roofed building, though it is usually thought to have been an open-air structure. Beaker people also introduced
mummification, burial in
log coffins and
cranial deformation to Britain.
The archaeologist
Timothy Darvill has argued that Stonehenge represented a
solar calendar
A solar calendar is a calendar whose dates indicates the season or almost equivalently the apparent position of the Sun relative to the stars. The Gregorian calendar, widely accepted as a standard in the world, is an example of a solar calendar ...
, reflecting the spread of
solar cosmologies across Northern Europe in the third millennium BC. Other researchers have emphasized the
lunar aspects of Stonehenge, such as the apparent alignment of the
Station Stone rectangle with the
Major Lunar Standstill, which occurs every 18.6 years. Various other astronomical interpretations have been proposed, such as the theory put forward by the astronomers
Gerald Hawkins and
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and was one of the authors of the influential B2FH paper, B2FH paper. He also held controversial stances on oth ...
that the ring of 56
Aubrey Holes could have been used to predict
lunar eclipses.
Bronze

Several regions of origin have been postulated for the
Beaker culture
The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell Beaker (archaeology), beaker drinking vessel used at the beginning of the European Bronze Age, ...
, notably the Iberian Peninsula, the Netherlands and Central Europe. Part of the Beaker culture brought the skill of refining
metal
A metal () is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electrical resistivity and conductivity, electricity and thermal conductivity, heat relatively well. These properties are all associated wit ...
to Great Britain. At first, they made items from
copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...
, but by around 2200 BC, smiths had discovered how to make
bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...
, which is much harder than copper, by mixing copper with a small amount of
tin. With that discovery, the
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...
began in Great Britain.
Britain had large reserves of tin in what is now
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
and
Devon
Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west ...
in
South West England
South West England, or the South West of England, is one of the nine official regions of England, regions of England in the United Kingdom. Additionally, it is one of four regions that altogether make up Southern England. South West England con ...
(the largest in Europe and among the largest in the world), and thus tin
mining
Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...
began. South West England has the earliest evidence for tin ore exploitation in Europe. Britain was also the first region in Europe to fully adopt tin-bronze technology and switch all metalwork from copper and arsenical bronze to full tin-bronze, in the period 2200-2100 BC. This full adoption subsequently occurred across Scandinavia and Central Europe by around 1800 BC and later in southern Iberia, the Aegean (Greece) and Egypt by around 1500/1300 BC.

An analysis of Bronze Age–Early Iron Age tin ingots recovered from four Mediterranean shipwrecks off the coasts of Israel and southern France found that they originated from tin ores in south-west Britain.
According to Williams et al. (2025), "the ‘bronzization’ of the East Mediterranean, occurring 1500–1300 BC, was primarily driven by European tin sources, particularly from south-west Britain, rather than Central Asian sources." This situation is reflected in later writings by the Greek historian
Herodotus
Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...
(c. 450 BC), who referred to the ''
Cassiterides'' or 'tin islands' in the distant northwest as the source for Mediterranean tin.
The importance of Britain as a source of tin is also reflected in evidence for connections between elites of the
Wessex culture and elites in
Mycenaean Greece
Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.. It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainla ...
, notably evidenced in the rich
Bush Barrow burial next to
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric Megalith, megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, to ...
.
Copper was exported to the continent from sites such as the
Great Orme mine in northern
Wales
Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...
, as was gold from Cornwall (notably used to make the
Nebra Sky Disc associated with the
Únětice culture
The Únětice culture, Aunjetitz culture or Unetician culture (, , , ) is an archaeological culture at the start of the Central European European Bronze Age, Bronze Age, dated roughly to about 2300–1600BC. The eponymous site for this culture, t ...
in central Europe).

Bronze axeheads, made by
casting
Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or ...
, were at first similar to their stone predecessors but then developed a socket for the wooden handle to fit into and a small loop or ring to make lashing the two together easier. Groups of unused axes are often found together, suggesting ritual deposits to some, but many archaeologists believe that elite groups collected bronze items and perhaps restricted their use among the wider population. Bronze swords of a graceful "leaf" shape, swelling gently from the handle before coming to a tip, have been found in considerable numbers, along with spear heads and arrow points.
Bronze Age Britons were also skilled at
making jewellery from gold, as well as occasional objects like the
Rillaton Cup and
Mold Cape. Many examples have been found in graves of the wealthy
Wessex culture of Southern Britain, but they are not as frequent as Irish finds.
The greatest quantities of bronze objects found in what is now
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
were discovered in
East Cambridgeshire, where the most important finds were recovered in
Isleham (more than
6500 pieces).
The earliest known metalworking building was found at Sigwells, Somerset, England. Several casting mould fragments were fitted to a Wilburton type sword held in Somerset County Museum. They were found in association with cereal grain that has been dated to the 12th century BC by
carbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
The method was ...
.
Wessex culture

The rich
Wessex culture developed in southern Great Britain during that time. The weather, previously warm and dry, became much wetter as the Bronze Age continued, which forced the population away from easily-defended sites in the hills and into the fertile
valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains and typically containing a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...
s. Large livestock farms developed in the lowlands which appear to have contributed to economic growth and inspired increasing forest clearances.
Deverel-Rimbury culture
The
Deverel-Rimbury culture began to emerge during the second half of the 'Middle Bronze Age' (c. 1400–1100 BC) to exploit the wetter conditions.
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
was a major source of
tin for much of western Europe and
copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...
was extracted from sites such as the
Great Orme mine in Northern
Wales
Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...
. Social groups appear to have been tribal, but growing complexity and hierarchies became apparent.
Disruption of cultural patterns

There is evidence of a relatively large-scale disruption of cultural patterns (see
Late Bronze Age collapse
The Late Bronze Age collapse was a period of societal collapse in the Mediterranean basin during the 12th century BC. It is thought to have affected much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, in particular Egypt, Anatolia, the Aegea ...
), which some scholars think may indicate an invasion (or at least a migration) into Southern Great Britain around the 12th century BC. The disruption was felt far beyond Britain, even beyond Europe, as most of the great
Near East
The Near East () is a transcontinental region around the Eastern Mediterranean encompassing the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and coastal areas of the Arabian Peninsula. The term was invented in the 20th ...
ern empires collapsed (or experienced severe difficulties), and the
Sea Peoples harried the entire
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern ...
basin around that time.
Cremation
Cremation is a method of Disposal of human corpses, final disposition of a corpse through Combustion, burning.
Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative to burial. In some countries, including India, Nepal, and ...
was adopted as a burial practice, with
cemeteries of
urns
An urn is a vase, often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal. Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflects its use rather than any particular shape ...
containing cremated individuals appearing in the archaeological record. According to
John T. Koch and others, the Celtic languages developed during the Late Bronze Age period in an intensely-trading-networked culture called the
Atlantic Bronze Age, which included Britain, Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal,
but that stands in contrast to the more generally-accepted view that the Celtic languages developed earlier than that, with some cultural practices developing in the
Hallstatt culture
The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western Europe, Western and Central European archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age Europe, Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe (Hallst ...
.
Late Bronze Age migration
In 2021, a major
archaeogenetics
Archaeogenetics is the study of ancient DNA using various molecular genetic methods and DNA resources. This form of genetic analysis can be applied to human, animal, and plant specimens. Ancient DNA can be extracted from various fossilized spec ...
study uncovered a migration into southern Britain during the 500-year period from 1300 to 800 BC.
The newcomers were genetically most similar to ancient individuals from
Gaul
Gaul () was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Roman people, Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy. It covered an area of . Ac ...
and had higher levels of Early European Farmers ancestry.
From 1000 to 875 BC, their genetic marker swiftly spread through southern Britain,
which made up around half the ancestry of subsequent Iron Age people in that area, but not in northern Britain.
The "evidence suggests that, rather than a violent invasion or a single migratory event, the genetic structure of the population changed through sustained contacts between Britain and mainland Europe over several centuries, such as the movement of traders, intermarriage, and small scale movements of family groups".
The authors describe this as a "plausible vector for the spread of early
Celtic languages
The Celtic languages ( ) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from the hypothetical Proto-Celtic language. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yve ...
into Britain".
There was much less migration into Britain during the Iron Age and so it is likely that Celtic had reached Britain before then.
The study also found that
lactose tolerance
Lactase persistence or lactose tolerance is the continued activity of the lactase enzyme in adulthood, allowing the digestion of lactose in milk. In most mammals, the activity of the enzyme is dramatically reduced after weaning. In some human popu ...
rose swiftly in early Iron Age Britain, a thousand years before it became widespread in mainland Europe, which suggests that milk became a very important foodstuff in Britain at this time.
Gallery
File:St Juliot lunula 2.jpg, Gold lunula, –2000 BC
File:Bell Beaker 1a.jpg, Bell Beaker artefacts
File:Bush Barrow.jpg, Bush Barrow artefacts,
File:Rillaton cup, from Rillaton, Cornwall, England, Early Bronze Age, c. 1800-1600 BC, gold - British Museum - DSC01333.jpg, Rillaton gold cup,
File:Jet necklace2.png, Jet necklace, c. 2140-1900 BC
File:Hove Amber Cup - Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove 26791.jpg, Hove amber cup,
File:Caergwrle bowl.jpg, Caergwrle Bowl,
File:Shropshire Sun Pendant 1.png, The Shropshire bulla,
File:Bronze axe heads from Britain 1.png, Bronze axes, England
File:Bronze Age clothing pins.png, Bronze clothing pins
File:Bronze Age amber necklace, Britain 2.png, Amber necklace, England
File:Milton Keynes Hoard.jpg, Gold hoard, 1000 BC
File:Shield1.jpg, Bronze shield
File:Dagger1.png, Early Bronze Age axe and dagger
File:British Museum - Room 50 (21045332576).jpg, The Oxborough Dirk, 1500–1300 BC
File:Museum of ScotlandDSCF6306.jpg, Bronze swords found in Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...
File:Bronze tools 4.png, Tools and pottery
File:Sheet bronze cauldron british museum.JPG, Late Bronze Age cauldron
File:Late Bronze Age Gold Torque from Grunty Fen in the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.jpg, Late Bronze Age gold torque
File:Dover Bronze Age Boat 2011.jpg, Dover Boat,
File:Ferriby boat model and replica tools.jpg, Ferriby Boat model and replica tools,
File:Bronze wheel parts.png, Bronze wheel parts
File:Horse bridle cheekpieces, Bronze Age Britain.png, Horse bridles made from antler
File:Yamnaya wagon illustration.jpg, Wagon, illustration
File:The Devil's Humps - geograph.org.uk - 1503594.jpg, Burial mounds ( barrows)
File:Round House 1a.jpg, Hypothetical roundhouse reconstruction
File:Bronze Age log coffin burial, reconstruction.jpg, Log coffin burial, reconstruction
See also
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Prehistoric Britain
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Bronze Age Scotland
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Bronze Age Cornwall
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Bronze Age Wales
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Copper and Bronze Age Ireland
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Ferriby Boats
The Ferriby Boats are three Bronze Age Britain, Bronze-Age British sewn boat, sewn plank-built boats, parts of which were discovered at North Ferriby in the East Riding of Yorkshire, East Riding of the England, English county of Yorkshire. Onl ...
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Langdon Bay hoard
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List of Bronze Age hoards in Great Britain
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Bronze Age France
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Unetice culture
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Armorican Tumulus culture
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Hilversum culture
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Nordic Bronze Age
The Nordic Bronze Age (also Northern Bronze Age, or Scandinavian Bronze Age) is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from .
The Nordic Bronze Age culture emerged about 1750 BC as a continuation of the Late Neolithic Dagger period, which is root ...
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Bronze Age Europe
The European Bronze Age is characterized by bronze artifacts and the use of bronze implements. The regional Bronze Age succeeds the Neolithic Europe, Neolithic and Chalcolithic Europe, Copper Age and is followed by the Iron Age Europe, Iron Age. It ...
References
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*Pollard, Joshua (ed.) (2008). ''Prehistoric Britain''. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. .
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External links
From Rapier to Langsax: Sword Structure in the British Isles in the Bronze and Iron Agesby Niko Silvester (1995)
Divers unearth Bronze Age hoard off the coast of DevonMoor Sands finds, including a remarkably well preserved and complete sword which has parallels with material from the Seine basin of northern France*[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/scales-weights-and-weightregulated-artefacts-in-middle-and-late-bronze-age-britain/8FC07F12EF819A996D060FFF809479C9 Scales, weights and weight-regulated artefacts in Middle and Late Bronze Age Britain (Lorenz Rahmstorf 2019)]
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