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WHAT DID THEY LEAVE BEHIND?
We can still see evidence from the Stone and Bronze ages in the
countryside today. People find the stone tools and weapons they
used, like flint arrow and spear heads as well as clay pottery.
Sometimes they find the people themselves, or at least their bones
which is all that is left of them.
All over the countryside there are stone monuments built by Stone
and Bronze age people.
Neolithic people built megalithic
tombs. The word megalithic simply means large stone, so they built
large stone tombs. There are four types of Neolithic tombs- Court
tombs, Passage tombs (the largest of which is called Newgrange),
Wedge tombs and Portal tombs, also known as Dolmens.
Bronze Age people didn’t build big stone tombs, but did stand
large stones up on their ends. These are called standing stones
as they are standing up and can be a single stone or in lines circles
or other patterns.
You can still see the tombs and standing stones today. They were
built by people all those years ago without modern tools or machinery.
It is important to protect them from destruction and to remember
that Stone and Bronze age people were every bit as clever as we
are and these huge stones are a reminder of that fact.
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