Stone Age to the Iron Age KS2

Key Changes and Events Timeline Skara

Brae, Orkney
The village of Skara Brae is built in 5000 BC AD 500
Orkney. The people who live there Stone Age Bronze Age Iron Age
are beginning to farm their own Ancient Egypt Roman
food and build homes instead of Ancient Sumer Britain
Scotland
3000 BC travelling from place to place. AD1
Construction starts on Stonehenge
Stone Age Life Skara Brae
in Wiltshire. It will take around
The Stone Age is named Skara Brae was discovered after a storm in AD 1850
1000 years for it to be finished.
after the stone tools that removed the earth that had been covering it. It is a village
‘Bell Beaker’ culture arrives in the earliest humans of eight houses, linked by covered passageways. Not all
2500 BC Britain. These people are named for used to help them of the houses were built at the same time. The later ones
their distinctive decorative pottery. survive. They used them are slightly bigger but they have very similar features,
to kill animals, such as such as a central firepit and stone shelves. The village
Bronze begins to be used in Britain
2100 BC mammoths, for their tells us a lot about life in the late Stone Age, including
to make weapons and tools.
meat, bone marrow and what people ate and what sort of tools they used.
1800 BC The first large copper mines are dug. skins. The bones were
‘Celtic’ culture begins to arrive in
also useful for making Stonehenge
1200 BC tools, such as needles to Stonehenge is a famous prehistoric monument in
Britain and tribal kingdoms develop.
sew skins together. southern England, built at the end of the Stone Age and
Iron begins to be used in Britain to into the Bronze Age. Originally, it
People in the Stone Age
make tools and weapons, instead was just an earthwork and up to 150
800 BC moved around from place
of bronze. people were buried there. The huge
to place with the seasons,
The first hillforts are constructed. in order to keep safe and stones that we see were added in
warm and to follow the different stages. Some were brought
AD 43 The Romans invade Britain. animals they hunted. from 240 miles away in Wales.

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Stone Age to the Iron Age KS2

Key Vocabulary Roundhouses

A metal alloy made from a mixture a. thick thatch
of copper and tin. It is a much harder b. door e
bronze c. wattle
and more long-lasting material than d. daud f
stone or copper alone. e. timber frame
f. upright loom a h
A metal made by combining two or g. hearth (fire) b i g
alloy
more metals to improve its properties. h. beds c
d An Iron
i. logs for sitting on Age hillfort
bone The substance inside bones, which is
marrow high in fat and a good energy source. Hillforts Druids
A large bank or mound of soil that People in the Bronze Age and Iron Druids were the priests of the tribes we call
earthwork
has been made on purpose. Age lived in roundhouses. These ‘Celts’. Their job was to communicate with
could be very large and would the more than 400 gods that the people of
A modern term for the people living have housed many people. One the tribes believed in. They believed the
in Europe during the Iron Age. The household might have had two gods lived in nature. The main festivals
Celt ‘Celts’ were made up of many different houses, one for living and one were based around important times in the
tribes. The word ‘Celt’ comes from a for cooking and making things. farming year. The Druids sacrificed food,
Greek word. In the Iron Age, these houses precious objects and even humans to keep
were sometimes rectangular and the gods happy.
To give something up, break it or kill were often gathered in farming
sacrifice Druids were also like doctors and lawyers.
it as an offering to a god or gods. communities on hills. These were
They found cures in plants and resolved
A group of people, often related known as ‘hillforts’.
disagreements. Their opinions were more
tribe through family, culture and language, Between 500 and 100 BC, many important than those of the king. It took
usually with one leader. parts of Britain were dominated
at least 20 years to train to be a Druid.
by hillforts. These settlements
A metal that is stronger and harder However, we only know about them from
iron provided a home for hundreds,
what the Romans wrote down.
than bronze. and later thousands, of people.

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