PLEASE FAST FORWARD TO THE BRONZE AGE IN ANCIENT BRITAIN FOR A MOMENT!

For this Blog I would like to concentrate for a moment on what appears to have been a cataclysmic and sudden rejection of the use of Bronze in the British Islands, and perhaps elsewhere; prior to their apparent leap into the Iron age.

Published documents reveal a mass rejection of copper/bronze for use as weapons and cooking utensils taking place around the 7bc or 8bc mark.

Hoards of copper/bronze utensils, tools, shields, arms etc from these dates have been found in rivers, buried in fields, in woods and some still remain undiscovered.

Why such a sudden and unambiguous rejection of such a source of livelihood?

Perhaps one solution to this conundrum is that this source of livelihood was intrinsically poisonous to them and they did not know that beforehand!

"It gets curiouser and curiouser"

(Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll)

I will copy this to my online archaeology post.