Editing Bath, Somerset (section)

===Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages===
The hills in the locality such as [[Bathampton Down]] saw human activity from the [[Mesolithic]] period.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wessex Archaeology |title=Archaeological Desk- based Assessment |url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/estates/docs/Appendix_F_Archaeology.pdf |work=University of Bath, Masterplan Development Proposal 2008 |publisher=Bath University |access-date=4 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150902082459/http://www.bath.ac.uk/estates/docs/Appendix_F_Archaeology.pdf |archive-date=2 September 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Monument No. 204162 |url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=204162 |work=PastScape |publisher=Historic England |access-date=2 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504193813/http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=204162 |archive-date=4 May 2015 }}</ref> Several [[Bronze Age]] [[round barrow]]s were opened by [[John Skinner (archaeologist)|John Skinner]] in the 18th century.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Rod |title=A Sacred landscape: The prehistory of Bathampton Down |year=2008 |publisher=Millstream Books |location=Bath |isbn=978-0-948975-86-8 |page=21 }}</ref> A [[long barrow]] site believed to be from the [[Bronze Age Europe|Early Bronze Age]] [[Beaker people]] was flattened to make way for [[RAF Charmy Down]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Beaker people and the Bronze Age |url=http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ASH/Beakpeop.htm |publisher=[[Somerset County Council]] |access-date=2 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814192140/http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ASH/Beakpeop.htm |archive-date=14 August 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Charmy Down |url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=203301 |website=Pastscape |publisher=Historic England |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822223846/http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=203301 |archive-date=22 August 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Solsbury Hill]] overlooking the current city was an [[Iron Age]] [[hill fort]] and the adjacent Bathampton Camp may also have been one.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Rod |title=A Sacred landscape: The prehistory of Bathampton Down |year=2008 |publisher=Millstream Books |location=Bath |isbn=978-0-948975-86-8 |pages=46–48 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bathampton Camp |work=PastScape |url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=203244 |publisher=Historic England |access-date=2 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504193819/http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=203244 |archive-date=4 May 2015 }}</ref>