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Stone Age to Iron Age: A Time-Travel Adventure in Britain

Stone Age to Iron Age: A Time-Travel Adventure in Britain

Learn how life in Britain changed from the Stone Age to the Iron Age by digging up clues, making a bronze axe and building a hill fort.

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What you'll learn

  • Put the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in order
  • Read BC dates, where a bigger number means longer ago
  • How hunter-gatherers found food and made flint tools
  • Why farming let people settle in villages like Skara Brae
  • That bronze is made by melting copper and tin together
  • How Iron Age tribes protected hill forts with ditches and ramparts

Chapter by chapter

  1. Timeline: putting the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages in order Free to try

    Years 3–6 history · 1

  2. Hunter-gatherers: hunting, fishing and gathering in the Stone Age

    Years 3–6 history · 2 Years 3–6 history · 1

  3. The first farmers: Skara Brae and New Stone Age villages

    Years 3–6 history · 2 Years 3–6 history · 1

  4. Bronze Age: metalwork, Stonehenge and travel

    Years 3–6 history · 2

  5. Iron Age hill forts: tribes, farming, art and culture

    Years 3–6 history · 2

  6. Changes from the Stone Age to the Iron Age: the whole story

    Years 3–6 history · 1 Years 3–6 history · 2

  7. Final challenge: Stone Age to Iron Age (10 questions)

What the chapters cover in the national curriculum in England:

  1. Years 3–6 history: Continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study
  2. Years 3–6 history: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Examples (non-statutory): late Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers, for example, Skara Brae; Bronze Age religion, technology and travel, for example, Stonehenge; Iron Age hill forts: tribal kingdoms, farming, art and culture

About this adventure

Stone Age to Iron Age is an interactive history game that teaches children aged 7–9 how life in Britain changed from hunter-gatherers to the first farmers, Bronze Age metalworkers and Iron Age tribes. It follows the KS2 history curriculum and is pitched mainly at Year 3.

Guided by Ash, a time-travelling archaeologist, players dig through soil layers to find clues and build a timeline using BC dates. They gather wild food, chip a flint blade, plant crops, uncover the stone village of Skara Brae and pour melted copper and tin into a mould to make bronze.

Later they raise the stones of Stonehenge, follow the Amesbury Archer's journey from the Alps, and build an Iron Age hill fort with ditches, ramparts and a palisade. Narration, captions and short questions check understanding, and the game ends with a 10-question challenge.

Questions and answers

When were the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in Britain?

In Britain, the Stone Age lasted until about 2500 BC, the Bronze Age ran from about 2500 BC to 800 BC, and the Iron Age lasted from about 800 BC until the Romans invaded in AD 43.

How did people make bronze in the Bronze Age?

Bronze was made by melting copper and tin together, roughly nine parts copper to one part tin. The hot liquid metal was poured into a stone or clay mould and left to cool and harden into tools, weapons or jewellery.

What was an Iron Age hill fort?

An Iron Age hill fort was a settlement on a hilltop, protected by deep ditches, high banks of earth called ramparts and a wooden fence. Families lived inside in roundhouses, and Maiden Castle in Dorset is one of the largest.

What age is the Stone Age to Iron Age game for?

The game is designed for children aged 7 to 9 and matches the KS2 history curriculum in England, where this topic is usually taught in Year 3. Spoken narration and captions help younger or less confident readers.

How long does the Stone Age to Iron Age game take?

Playing everything takes about 45 minutes. There are six chapters of roughly six to eight minutes each, plus a 10-question final challenge, and children can start any chapter from the time map and continue later.

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