Bronze Age Keywords

Question 0

Beaker people

Answer 0

People who made beaker looking pottery

Question 1

Bronze Age

Answer 1

Bronze Age was the time when people made tools out of copper, tin and bronze.

Question 2

Smiths

Answer 2

Very skilled people who made objects out of metal

Question 3

Hoard

Answer 3

Large number of Bronze Age tools

Question 4

Lunalae

Answer 4

A good example of Bronze Age jewellery

Question 5

Fulacht fia

Answer 5

May have been a Bronze Age cooker or a bath. It could have been used all year round or just in the summer time.

Question 6

Cist grave

Answer 6

A cist grave is a pit buried in the ground lined with stone slabs. Some contained cremated remains and others had bodies buried in a crouched position.

Question 7

Wedge tombs

Answer 7

Were built with large flat stones. Bodies were cremated and the ashes were put into pottery containers that were placed in the wedge tombs.

Question 8

Stone circles

Answer 8

These are tall upright stones arranged in circles or rows. Some of them have human remains buried within them

Question 9

Bronze

Answer 9

When you added tin to copper it made bronze