The Knighton Heath Period is the name given by
Colin Burgess to a phase of the
Bronze Age in
Britain following the
Bedd Branwen Period
The Bedd Branwen Period is the name given by Colin Burgess to a division of the early Bronze Age in Britain covering the period between 1650 BC and 1400 BC. It follows his Overton Period and is superseded by his Knighton Heath Period.
It covers t ...
and spanning the period 1400 BC to 1200 BC.
It was succeeded by the
Penard Period
The Penard Period is a metalworking phase of the Bronze Age in Britain spanning the period c. 1275 BC to c. 1140 BC.
It is named after the typesite of Penard in West Glamorgan, where a hoard of bronze tools from the period was found in 1827.
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History
The ''Knighton Heath Period'' marks the end of the rich
Wessex culture and the increasingly wider use of
Deverel-Rimbury culture pottery.
Cremation cemeteries remained the dominant burial rite and regional styles such as the Ardleigh urns of
East Anglia
East Anglia is an area in the East of England, often defined as including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, a people whose name originated in Anglia, in ...
and the
Trevisker urns of
Cornwall emerged.
In terms of metalworking, the period saw the end of the
Acton Park phase of bronze tool manufacture and the rise of much more Continentally-influenced industries in what is called the Middle Bronze Age
ornament horizon. These included the
Taunton Phase in southern England, the
Glentrool industries in
Scotland and the
Bishopsland industries in
Ireland. All had links with mainland Europe, namely the
Tumulus culture C stage in and the Frøjk-Osterfeld Group of
Oscar Montelius' IIIb-c phase.
Bibliography
* Burgess, C., 1980. ''The Age of Stonehenge'' London, Dent & Sons
* Burgess, C., 1986. 'Urnes of no Small Variety': Collared Urns Reviewed ''Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society'' 52, 339-351
Periods of the British Bronze Age
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