The Bronze and Iron Ages

The smelting of metal first bronze c1700 BC and later iron c600 BC would seem to be a magical process to the those who witnessed it for the first time and it is not surprising that the "smith" has become a character in early folk law The God Woden with his giant hammer being an example.

Excavations at Acton Trussell  uncovered evidence of occupation in the bronze and iron ages often over cut by evidence of occupation in later times.

Meet The Ancestors 

By the late Iron Age much of the forested land around Cannock Chase had been cleared and small fields created for stock rearing and growing crops. The people of Acton Trussell formed a settled community  one that had lived and worked  the area for generations  they were part of tribe called (by the Romans) the Cornovii.

The families who lived and farmed the land in the centuries before the Christian era were part of a settled community the Cornovii whose  territories stretched as far as the Wrekin in Shropshire. They were a people able to muster the resources to build  structures which later historians designated as hill forts including Castle Ring near Hednesford and Bury Bank  at Stafford.  And Then Came Rome!   NEXT