Prehistoric Period. 447 



BRONZE PERIOD. 



This period was a very short one compared with the preceding, 

 and reached down to as late as about 1000 B.C. Remains of this 

 time are very rare, but the gold ornaments discovered at Crayford 

 in 1906 and 1907 are of this period. 



EARLY IRON PERIOD. 



The Iron Age speedily merged into the Historic period. When 

 Julius Caesar made his first acquaintance with the Kelts of this 

 island iron was in full use and a considerable degree of culture 

 obtained. The camp at Charlton is now generally accepted as of 

 this period. The vases discovered in 1906, and now at Charlton 

 House, may be of Keltic manufacture on Roman models. Roman 

 culture had affected this side of the Straits long before the 

 permanent occupation. 



