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7500 BCE
Hunter Gatherer (Journey to Sarum)
Wore fur (no stitching yet), no ornaments, lived in tents, hunted with spears, axe and bow. Giant creatures (auroch). -
Period: 7500 BCE to 1700 BCE
Neolithic Era
Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. -
4000 BCE
Farming (The Barrow)
Mainland Europeans, pushed out of their land by north and western raiders, crossed the mainland into England on boats made of painted skins on wooden frames. Introduced the idea of farming animals and crops. Create barrows (burial mounds). -
Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historic period, approximately 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE, that was characterized by the use of bronze, in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization. -
2000 BCE
Stonehenge
Stonehenge - built in alignment with sun? Human sacrifice? Stone dragged from far away quarry. Trade with mainland Europe. -
Period: 800 BCE to 500
Celts (or Britons)
Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age (and into the Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons (among others). They spoke the Common Brittonic language, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages. Their leaders were the Druids. They were persecuted by the Romans. -
100 BCE
Celts
Northwest Europe was dominated by three main Celtic groups: the Gauls (in France), the Britons (in England) and the Gaels (in Ireland). The Druids, the Celting leaders had universities where traditional knowledge was passed on by rote memory. The Celts were fierce warriors. They liked to cover themselves in blue paint and tattoos to give a frightening fierce look as they fought war in the naked. The Anglo Saxons eventually destroyed Celtic culture in Britian. -
54 BCE
Julius Caesar in Britain
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Period: 43 to 410
Roman Occupation of Britain
Road building, crushing uprisings, baths, buildings. -
60
Celtic Boudica and the Iceni Revolt
Roman Governor of Britain, Suetonius Paulinus, plundered the native chief's lands. The chief, Prasutagus's, widow Boudica was publicly flogged and her daughters were raped by Roman slaves.
Other Iceni chiefs similarly suffered. Boudica lead a revolt of thousands of enraged Britons. Only to be eventually decimated by Suetonius in AD 61. -
410
Rome leaves Briton
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Period: 450 to 620
Anglo Saxon Invasions
In the power vacuum left after Rome left Briton, invasions began from North German / Scandinavian towns. Bede (the historian) records these groups to be 'Anglos, Saxons and Jutes..' -
500
Beowolf (Anglo Saxon poem)
The story is set in pagan Scandinavia in the 6th century. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by the monster Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland (Götaland in modern Sweden) and becomes king of the Geats. -
597
St Augustine (of Canterbury) mission to Briton
Brought Saxon Briton under Catholic rule. -
600
Anglo Saxon Sutton Hoo
Ceremonial Anglo Saxon Burial Site -
Period: 793 to 1066
Viking Invasions of Briton
Seasonal piracy and land attacks. Vikings originated from Scandiavia (just like the Anglos/Saxons/Jutes). -
878
Horse Engraved - Saxon King Alfred defeated Vikings
Chalk was exposed to commemorate King Alfred's victory at the Battle of Ethandun in 878, defeating the danish viking forces