Editing Isle of Wight (section)

===Bronze Age and Iron Age===
From {{circa|4,400|4,200 years}} ago Britain experienced a new wave of migrations from continental Europe, linked to the [[Bell Beaker culture|Bell Beaker Culture]]. Bell beaker migrants are typically thought to have introduced metal-working to Britain marking the beginning of the [[Bronze Age]]. Evidence of early Bronze Age occupation on the Isle of Wight include distinctive bell beaker pots, flint tools, occupation sites and finds of bronze weapons and tools, occurring either individually or in [[hoard]] deposits such as the famous [[Arreton]] hoard. Highly visible evidence of early Bronze Age activity on the Isle of Wight comes in the form of the [[Tumulus|barrow monuments]] present across the island's chalk downland.  It is likely these barrows were high-status burial sites, and often occur in 'cemeteries' a notable example being Five Barrows near [[Brook, Isle of Wight|Brook.]]  [[File:Early Bronze Age Developed Flat Axehead (Arreton Down Type) (FindID 441752).jpg|thumb|right|An [[British Bronze Age|early Bronze Age]] axehead from {{circa|2000|1700}} [[Common Era|BCE]], found on the island in 2011<ref>{{cite web |url= https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/441752 |title= Finds record for: IOW-ADA318 |author= Basford, F |access-date= 29 August 2022 |publisher= The Portable Antiquities Scheme}}</ref>]]
[[Bronze Age Britain]] had large tin reserves in Cornwall and Devon areas, which was necessary to [[Smelting|smelt]] [[bronze]]. At that time, the sea level was much lower, and carts of tin were brought across the [[Solent]] at low tide<ref name="Adams 1877">{{cite book|last1=Adams|first1=William Henry Davenport|title=Nelsons' hand-book to the Isle of Wight|date=1877|publisher=Oxford University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQoHAAAAQAAJ&q=Cotentin+Peninsula+trade+Isle+of+Wight|access-date=16 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="Hawkes 1984"/> for export, possibly on the [[Ferriby Boats]]. Anthony Snodgrass<ref>{{cite book|last1=Snodgrass|first1=A. M.|title=Arms and Armour of the Greeks|date=1966|publisher=Thames & Hudson, London}}</ref><ref name="Snodgrass 1971">{{cite book|last1=Snodgrass|first1=A. M.|title=The Dark Age of Greece|date=1971|publisher=Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh}}</ref> suggests that a shortage of tin, as a part of the [[Bronze Age]] Collapse and trade disruptions in the Mediterranean around 1300 BC, forced metalworkers to seek an alternative to bronze. 

From the 7th century BC, during the [[Late Iron Age]], the Isle of Wight, like the rest of Great Britain, was occupied by the [[Celtic Britons]], in the form of the [[Durotriges]] tribe, as attested by finds of their coins, for example, the South Wight Hoard,<ref>Williams, Jonathan; Hill, J.D.[http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/216933], Portable Antiquities Scheme,  Record ID: IOW-38B400.</ref><ref>The Isle of Wight Ingot Hoard [http://www.artfund.org/what-we-do/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/9645/the-isle-of-wight-ingot-hoard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223307/http://www.artfund.org/what-we-do/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/9645/the-isle-of-wight-ingot-hoard|date=2 December 2013}} The Art Fund</ref> and the Shalfleet Hoard.<ref>Leins, Ian; Joy, Jody; Basford, Frank [http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/267811], Portable Antiquities Scheme, Record ID: IOW-EAAFE2.</ref> The island was known as ''Ynys Weith'' in [[Brittonic languages|Brittonic Celtic]].<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsBritain/EnglandWight.htm|title=Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Wight (Isle of Wight)|website=www.historyfiles.co.uk}}</ref> Southeastern Britain experienced significant immigration, which is reflected in the current residents' genetic makeup.<ref name="Leslie, et al. 2015">{{cite journal|last1=Leslie, et al. 2015|first1=Stephen|title=The fine-scale genetic structure of the British population|journal=Nature|volume=519|issue=March 2015|pages=309–314|doi=10.1038/nature14230|pmid=25788095|pmc=4632200|year=2015|bibcode=2015Natur.519..309.}}</ref> As the [[Iron Age]] began, tin value likely dropped sharply, greatly changing the Isle of Wight's economy. Trade, however, continued, as evidenced by the local abundance of European Iron Age coins.<ref name="Wellington 2001">{{cite journal|last1=Wellington|first1=Imogen|title=Iron Age Coinage on the Isle of Wight|journal=Oxford Journal of Archaeology|date=February 2001|volume=20|issue=1|pages=39–57|doi=10.1111/1468-0092.00122}}</ref><ref name="Crawford 1912">{{cite journal|last1=Crawford|first1=Osbert Guy Stanhope|title=The distribution of early bronze age settlements in Britain|journal=Geographical Journal|date=1912|volume=1912|issue=2|pages=184–197|doi=10.2307/1778466|jstor=1778466|bibcode=1912GeogJ..40..184C |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2469772}}</ref>