I've always had this vague impression that the bronze age was impossibly primitive and backward, barely rising above the bone-in-the-nose Neanderthals going around clubbing each other and chasing woolly mammoths about.
Of course, the Greeks were a bronze-age society in their pinnacle, and there were hardly savages.
Now I understand and appreciate that Britain in the bronze age was no Greece, and that I cannot use the one to assume much about the other. But bronze-age Britains, though tribal and pagan, were highly organized and had much in common with their descendants right through the medieval period.
I have added quite a bit since my last update. First, I have imagined a large palisade from the early bronze age surrounding the entire village. The structure itself is not discovered in the dig, but evidence of it in the form of post holes are found.
I have also added numerous barrows, or "tumuli" on the far side of the NW wall. One of the changes from the neolithic to bronze-age society in Britain was that the custom of large, communal barrows gave way to smaller, individual burial mounds.
I added some images of bronze-age tanning tools, and one early iron-age tool It is fascinating how metallurgy effects archaeology Iron is a far superior metal in many ways to bronze, but it decays much more rapidly.
I added number labels to all of the parts of the map. I then put descriptions into the legend. The type is tiny but the words are not gibberish, at least not within the context of my fictional dig. I encourage you to read it.
