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At this time, money didn’t exist in England so people would exchange goods if they wanted or needed something. Traders would come to England from all over Europe and even from places in Asia.
The traders would bring spices and wine and take home the tin and copper found in England so they could make bronze.
In 1992, while construction workers were building a new road between Dover and Folkestone, on the Kent coast, (map reading time, find an atlas of Great Britain) they uncovered the remains of a large and well-preserved prehistoric boat. The boat was roughly 3,500 years old and archaeologists estimate it would have been in use in England at roughly this time.
The boat is now in Dover Museum and, if you get the chance, I’d pop off down there and see the world's oldest known sea-going boat. The pictures show it when it was found and how it looks now. Archaeologists remain unsure of how large the boat originally was because some of it was buried so close to buildings that it would have been unsafe to dig it out; the buildings might have collapsed. Only 9.5 metres of the boat was recovered. It is amazing to think that you can go and look at something built such a long time ago. It is not surprising it was found near Dover as Dover is the closest place in England to Europe.
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