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Early Britain

Learn the prehistoric sequence through the dates, places and firsts the test actually checks.

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What to be able to answer

  • Place Stone Age, first farmers, Bronze Age and Iron Age in order.
  • Attach Stonehenge to Wiltshire, Skara Brae to Orkney and Maiden Castle to Dorset.
  • Remember the Iron Age firsts: Celtic languages and the first coins minted in Britain.

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From Stone Age hunters to Iron Age kingdoms

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Stonehenge stone circle in Wiltshire
Stonehenge, Wiltshire — a Stone Age ceremonial monument Credit: garethwiscombe, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Early Britain at a glance

The test checks the sequence, the places, and the firsts.

  1. 10,000 years

    Britain separates

    The Channel permanently separated Britain from the continent.

  2. 6,000 years

    Farmers and monuments

    First farmers arrived; Stonehenge is in Wiltshire and Skara Brae is on Orkney.

  3. 4,000 years

    Bronze Age

    People made bronze objects, lived in roundhouses and used round barrows.

  4. Iron Age

    Coins and Celtic languages

    Hill forts, Maiden Castle in Dorset, Celtic languages and the first coins minted in Britain.

Do not mix up

Stonehenge is in Wiltshire; Skara Brae is on Orkney.
Bronze Age is about 4,000 years ago; the Channel separation is about 10,000 years ago.
Vikings and Alfred belong to the later Anglo-Saxon and Viking topic.

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