Dover Museum - Technology in the Bronze Age

Bronze Age Boat
	An Introduction
	The Discovery
	The Excavation
	Conservation
	Reconstruction Experiment
	The re-assembly of the Dover Boat

The Boat Gallery
	Introduction
	Belief and Ritual
	Bronze Age Living
	Bronze Age Technology
	Boat building skills
	Bronze Age Trade
	Science and Archaeology

Project to build a full size replica of the Bronze Age boat Project Leaflet (PDF) Richard Darrah's website

Bronze Age Technology & Materials



This area of the gallery looks at the materials and technology that was available during the Bronze Age and the developments during this period. The Bronze Age The Bronze Age marks the development and refinement of bronze-making. This was particularly important for making tools.
Before the discovery of metals, tools were made of stone which was brittle and soon went blunt. Metal tools made woodworking on a large scale - like that of the Dover boat - possible.
			Not Just Bronze Bronze was not the only material to be used. Stone was still used in the Bronze Age, for instance for arrow heads.
Wood was used for many things, and pottery was also used.
We can only learn about the Bronze Age through the objects that survive. Pottery, metal and stone tend to be preserved better than wood and other organic material, so we do not know a great deal about how they used these materials. Farming Bronze Age people, in southern Britain, also farmed the land using simple but effective tools. The ard - a wooden light plough - was used, probably drawn by oxen. Sheep were kept for wool, which was spun and woven. Crops such as wheat were grown, and the grain was milled.

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