Bronze Age Objects

The Bronze Age saw the introduction of new styles of pottery and most significantly metal was introduced for the first time.

The new highly decorated pottery vessels known to archaeologists as beakers soon gained widespread popularity throughout much of Britain and Europe. These beakers seem to have had some ritual significance and are often found in burials.

Specialist craftsmen using the new metals were creating an increasingly complex array of weapons and jewelry.

The earliest axes of the Bronze Age were a fairly simple flat shape that could be cast in a one or two piece stone mould while the later socketed axes required a more complex mould of bronze or clay that was formed around a wax die.