Lake District historical timeline: Difference between revisions

==Neolithic (4,100–2,500 BCE)==

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|'''4,000–3,350''' BCE

|Axes heads are being produced at the Great Langdale Axe Factory, in particular on the Langdale Pikes. There is a total of ten quarries, caves, adits, open-cast mines and vertical faces producing the stone that will take a month to shape and polish into finely-crafted, usable axe heads. This is an important industrial site for the production of axe heads, which have been found all over Britain and Ireland, suggest extensive trade networks.<ref>Holder (2009) p.37</ref>

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|'''3,000''' BCE

|[[Castlerigg Stone Circle]] is thought to have been constructed around this time, making it one of the earliest and finest stone circles in Britain. Although many of the 300+ stone circles across the country are dated to the Bronze Age, they also include burial mounds. The stone circle at Castlerigg does not.<ref>[https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/castlerigg-stone-circle/history/ Castlerigg Stone Circle] English Heritage. Accessed 15 July, 2023.</ref>

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==Roman Period (43–410 CE)==

*Holder, Geoff (2009). ''The Guide to The Mysterious Lake District''. Stroud: The History Press.