Beaker pottery appears in the Mount Pleasant Phase (2700–2000 BC), along with flat axes and the burial practice of inhumation.

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.ĭevelopment The Beaker cultures Īround 2500 BC, a new pottery style arrived in Great Britain: the Beaker culture. 800–700 BC: Ewart Park Phase, Llyn Fawr Phase: leaf-shaped swords.1000–900 BC: Late Urnfield: socketed axes, palstaves (also lead).1200–1000 BC: Early Urnfield Wilburton-Wallington Phase.1300–1200 BC: Knighton Heath Period ' rapiers.'.1500–1300 BC: Acton Park Phase: palstaves, socketed spearheads copper+tin, also lead.1800–1600 BC: Fargo Phase (see correction at Bedd Branwen Period) burials.2100–1900 BC: Late Beaker: knives, tanged spearheads ( Bush Barrow Wessex I Overton Period).2500–2000 BC: Mount Pleasant Phase, Early Bell Beaker culture: copper+tin.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. 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. Some sources give a date as late as 2000 BC, and others set 2200 BC as the demarcation between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. There is no clear consensus on the date for the beginning of the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. Bronze swords found in Scotland Early Bronze Age (EBA), c.

Stonehenge 2000 bc