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The Bronze Age
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Around 4,000 years ago people in Britain learned to make bronze, beginning the Bronze Age. They lived in roundhouses and buried their dead in tombs called round barrows. Bronze Age people were skilled metalworkers who made tools, ornaments and weapons in bronze and gold.
Memory tip: Bronze Age: roundhouses, round barrows for burials, fine bronze and gold metalwork.
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In which type of home did people live during the Bronze Age?
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