Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was that period of human development between the Neolithic and the Iron Age when metalworking began and tools and weapons were being made of bronze.

In Britain, this began around 2000 BC.

Around 600 BC, it gave way to the Iron Age.

There is some evidence of Bronze Age occupation in the district, including

Beacon Hill Round Barrow, Barkisland Bedlam Hill, Pecket Well Bent Head, Todmorden Blackheath barrow Cant Clough, Heptonstall Castle Carr Barrows Clough Head Hill, Heptonstall Cock Hill, Midgley Moor Cup-and-Ring marks Dean Head Stony Edge, Midgley Moor Dole The Greave, Midgley Han Royd, Midgley Moor Hanging Field Farm urnfield, Todmorden Hebden Royd urnfield Heights Clough, Wadsworth High Brown Knowl, Wadsworth High Rough, Midgley Moor Hundersfield monolith

Manshead Miller's Grave, Midgley Moor Mixenden Moor finds Mixenden urnfield Mount Skip Quarry, Old Town Old Hold Edge, Wadsworth Pule Hill, Boothtown Ringstone, Barkisland Shore End Top, Midgley Moor Stones Farm Standing Stones Tom Bell's Cave Tower Hill, Warley Walshaw Dean stone circle Wicken Hill Earth Circle, Wadsworth Withens Clough, Erringden

• Axes and spearheads found in a Northowram quarry [1856] are  evidence of a Bronze Age trade route from Burnley to the Yorkshire  Wolds

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