The Stone Age and Bronze Age

The first people in Britain were Stone Age hunter-gatherers. Britain was connected to the continent by a land bridge until about 10,000 years ago. The first farmers arrived around 6,000 years ago, likely from south-east Europe. They built monuments like Stonehenge in Wiltshire and Skara Brae on Orkney — the best-preserved prehistoric village in northern Europe. Around 4,000 years ago, people learned to make bronze, marking the Bronze Age, and buried their dead in round barrows.