Time Line - Derbyshire Prehistory
Years Ago
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Period
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Changes
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Peak District Sites
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1,600
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Roman
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Roman rule collapses
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1,900
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Romans
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1st towns
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A515 SE of Buxton, forts in Chesterfield, Brough, Glossop
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2,500
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Iron Age
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Peat Formation. Tribal warfare; hill forts built in many British locations
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No sites recognised in the Peak; Carl Wark is a possibility.
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3,500
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Bronze Age
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Forests opened up
1st hill forts
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Big Moor, Mam Tor, Stanton Moor, Gardom's Edge (cup & ring marks, enclosure wall, burial cairns, hut sites)
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5,000
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Neolithic
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First farmers
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Minninglow, Arbor Low
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10,000
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Mesolithic
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Woodland clearings
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Flint scatters e.g. Bleaklow, Unstone
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20,000
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Palaeolithic
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Basic flint tools
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Creswell Crags
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