0 the time in the past when tools and weapons were made of bronze (= a brown metal made of copper and tin), before iron was discovered: --
With the round barrows, which belong to the Bronze Age, and contain the remains of a later and more civilised Celtic population, we get far more advanced forms of pottery.
Well, it seems probable that between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age there intervened everywhere, or nearly everywhere, a very short and transient age of copper.
Then followed what is known as the Bronze Age, and we find that the people of this era also worked with clay.
The implements of the Bronze Age include swords, awls, knives, gouges, hammers, daggers and arrow-heads.
Barrows and sepulchral mounds strictly of the Bronze Age are smaller and less imposing than those of the Stone Age.
