Bronze Age

The Bronze Age collection contains a range of metalwork, from axe and spearheads to examples of gold jewellery. There is also a large collection of funeral pottery, showing a range of forms from beakers to incense containers that were buried in graves. Unusual items in the collection include a carved stone ball from the Eden Valley and a rare spearhead mould. A number of Bronze Age flint arrowheads in the collection show the progression of flint-knapping from the Neolithic period.

The Bronze Age display is housed in a replica wooden roundhouse in the Border Galleries.