Bronze Age Huts, Brean Down, Somerset

Photograph taken 1989 © Peter Dunn. Source Historic England Archive Photo Library ref: J890031

A reconstruction drawing of Bronze Age huts on Brean Down. Excavations here revealed the presence of an Early to Middle Bronze Age settlement. The site consisted of a midden (rubbish pit), general domestic waste such as pottery, hearths and two huts. There was also evidence for bone and leather working and small scale salt production. Possible field systems next to the huts were examined but provided little evidence for farming crops, it is thought they may have be used as animal enclosures.

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Somerset Brean Down

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Prehistoric (to AD42)

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Bronze Age objects found at Beeston Castle, including axe heads and a knife. Beeston Castle is located on a rocky crag above the Cheshire plain. The site has been occupied since prehistoric times and excavations have revealed remains spanning the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman periods. Beeston Castle itself was begun in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blundeville, the Sixth Earl of Chester. These objects are now in the care of English Heritage (2011).
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Bronze Age Huts, Brean Down, Somerset

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