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At about this time, archaeologists have found relics buried in rivers. When we had people being buried in barrows, long or round, their possessions were usually buried with them. Now, it seems, possessions would be thrown into rivers.
No one can be really sure why and this is the fun thing about this time in history, you can have a guess. This is my idea.
We know these people worshipped lots of gods. There would be a god of fire, a god of farming, a god looking after women when they had babies but they also worshipped the sun, the land and water. The sun isn’t touchable, in a way it’s not real. You can feel its warmth, you know that it helps crops grow, but you can’t put your hand on it. Land and water you can.
Our Bronze Age farmers understood a lot about how crops grow. The land in which you would plant them needed water to make the plants grow so water was possibly more important, in their eyes, than the land. The land was there but if it didn’t rain, rivers could dry up and the crops would fail.
Maybe these relics, often swords and knives, like those in the picture, and jewellery, were left as gifts to the river god.
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