![The Bronze-Age Period]() | The Bronze-Age Period
The selection of Bronze-Age weapons, Bronze-Age tools, Bronze-Age pottery and Bronze-Age jewellery which are offered for sale in the Antiques Centre York shown in this section, gives a rare opportunity to own a piece of British History which has been shrouded in the mist of time.
With the exception of the chance finds of artifacts, our knowledge of the Bronze-Age culture in Britain depends almost entirely upon excavations of ceremonial sites, from the most part connected with the burial of the dead.; sites which are attributed to purely domestic activity are relatively few. This is because the ceremonial sites are often marked by the remains of mounds, earthworks and groups of standing stones, while the purely domestic sites seem to have consisted of small groups of lightly constructed dwellings which suited a semi- nomadic Life, and were not regularly defended by earthworks.
The burial mounds of the Bronze- Age people have been explored by antiquarians and treasure hunters for centuries, and have often been excavated in recent years on an emergency basis, before destruction in the path of modern development. Even today, a large proportion of the objects found-some of which you will see in this section, come from more or less old incomplete excavations, carried out by amateur archeologists over the past two hundred years. |
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