Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

The extremely violent treatment of the corpses of at least 37 Bronze Age people is rewriting the history of prehistoric Britain.

It is the largest case of violence between humans identified in early Bronze Age England, which had been considered a peaceful time. The victims' bones were found by cavers in the 1970s.