What do you know about Prehistoric Britain?
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 459.
Prehistoric Britain is Britain during the period between the first arrival of humans on the land mass now known as Great Britain and the start of recorded British history. (The Old Stone Age) Britain is the period of the earliest known occupation of Britain by humans. This huge period saw many changes in the environment.
By about 6000 BC the melting of the ice sheet had created the English Channel, and Britain became an island.
As early as 4000 BC the British were constructing chambered tombs with large stonesThe Neolithic was the period of domestication of plants and animals.
The tomb builders sometimes covered the chambered tombs with earth - they are called them barrows. This period can be sub-divided into an earlier phase (2300 to 1200 BC) and a later one (1200 – 700 BC).
Around 2500 BC the Beaker people began to immigrate to Britain and brought metal-working skills with them. They made gold, copper and bronze device and ornaments.
It was during the Bronze age that circles of standing stones began to be erected in Britain.
5. What do you know about John Wilkinson?
John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the use and manufacture of cast iron and cast-iron goods in the Industrial Revolution. John Wilkinson was born in Little Clifton, Bridgefoot, the eldest son of Isaac Wilkinson and Mary Johnson.
John was educated at a dissenting academy at Kendal.
From 1755 John Wilkinson became as a partner in the Bersham concern and in 1757 with partners, he erected a blast furnace at Willey, near Broseley in Shropshire. He made his home in Broseley in a house called ‘The Lawns' which became his headquarters for many years. ‘The Mint' used for distribution of the thousands of tokens, each valued equivalent to a halfpenny.
In East Shropshire he also developed iron works at Snedshill, Hollinswood, Hadley and Hampton Loade. In 1774 John Wilkinson invented a boring machine in which the shaft that held the cutting tool extended through the cylinder and was supported on both ends, unlike the cantilevered borers then in use.
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