10 questions🇬🇧English
🪓 Stone Age to Iron Age – Year 3
History · Year 3 (KS2) — life in prehistoric Britain, from hunter-gatherers and Stonehenge to Iron Age hill forts
Make it your own private quiz and change anything you like
Questions
Which of these periods came first in British history?
Roman Britain
Iron Age
Stone Age
Bronze Age
20s
How did people in the early Stone Age get their food?
By trading with the Romans
By keeping herds of cows
By growing wheat in fields
By hunting animals and gathering plants
20s
What were the roofs of Iron Age roundhouses usually made from?
Flat stone slabs
Thatch
Sheets of iron
Slate tiles
20s
Bronze is made by mixing copper with which other metal?
Iron
Silver
Tin
Gold
20s
In the Iron Age, Britain was split into many groups, each led by a chief or king. What were these groups called?
Colonies
Empires
Tribes
Councils
30s
Skara Brae is a Stone Age village that was uncovered by a storm. Where is it?
Orkney, Scotland
Cornwall, England
Wiltshire, England
Anglesey, Wales
30s
Some of the smaller stones at Stonehenge, called bluestones, were brought from far away. Where did they come from?
Ireland
Spain
Wales
France
30s
How did farming change the way people lived in the Neolithic period?
They stopped making stone tools
They settled in one place and built homes
They began living in caves instead
They moved around more to find food
30s
Maiden Castle in Dorset is a famous example of which kind of place?
A Bronze Age copper mine
A Roman villa
A Neolithic stone circle
An Iron Age hill fort
30s
Which shows the three parts of the Stone Age in the correct order, from earliest to latest?
Palaeolithic → Mesolithic → Neolithic
Palaeolithic → Neolithic → Mesolithic
Mesolithic → Palaeolithic → Neolithic
Neolithic → Mesolithic → Palaeolithic
30s