Timeline of Lewisham and National events < 999 AD
10,000BC to 4000BC Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age [Archaeological Era]:: Some key events are hunter-gatherers repopulate Britain after the end of the Ice Age, Britain becomes an island.
4000BC to 3200BC | Early Neolithic or New Stone Age: Some key events are farming begins, people build tombs and enclosures, mine flint and quarry stone, people begin to make pottery. |
3200BC to 2300BC | Late Neolithic or New Stone Age [Archaeological Era]:: Some key events are that people build henges and stone circles, religious beliefs involve the sun, possible priestly leaders. |
2300BC to 1400BC | Early Bronze Age[Archaeological Era]: Some key events are bronze tools, people begin farming the uplands, henges, stone circles and rich burials. |
1400BC to 700BC | Late Bronze Age [Archaeological Era]: Some key events are more and better bronze tools, farms and fields, importance of rivers, lakes and bogs, warrior leaders. |
700BC to AD43 | Iron Age [Archaeological Era]: Some key events are the development of iron tools, hill forts, brochs, farmsteads, the use of coins, growth of kingdoms, ports, rich burials. |
AD43 to AD450 | Roman or Romano-British [Archaeological Era]: Some key events are the Roman conquest, the buildings of forts, towns, villas, roads, baths & temples, the arrival of Christianity and stone buildings. |
Roman | Watling Street ran across Blackheath, where there was an encampment. The Roman Dover Road passed through Hatcham. |
AD450 to AD1066 | Migration or Early Medieval [Archaeological Era]: Some key events are the Anglo-Saxon and Irish migrations and conquests, the creation small kingdoms, the founding of Christian abbeys and bishops. |
Saxon | Lewisham was known as Oleofsa’s Village. Two Saxon burials dated to the 600s found in 1992 near Deptford Broadway |
862 | Lewisham was referred to as LIofshema mearc |
918 | Lewisham was known as Lieuesham |
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