The faster horse replaced the ox as
the primary work animal. Other farm implements were: coulters,
which gave free passage to the plough by cutting weeds and turf,
picks, spades and shovels, reaping hooks and scythes, and sledge
hammers and anvils. Strips of land for agriculture were added from
waste land as the community grew. Waste lands were moors bristling
with brushwood, or gorse, heather and wanton weeds, reed-coated
marshes, quaking peat-bogs, or woods grown haphazard on sand or
rock. With iron axes, forests could be cleared to provide more
arable land.
Some villages had a smith, a wheelwright, and a cooper. There were
villages which had one or two market days in each week. Cattle,
sheep, pigs, poultry, calves, and hare were sold there. London was
a town on the Thames River under the protection of the Celtic
river god Lud: Lud's town. It's huts were probably built over the
water, as was Celtic custom. It was a port for foreign trade. Near
the town was Ludhill.
Flint workers mined with deer antler picks and ox shoulder blade
shovels for flint to grind into axes, spearheads, and arrowheads.
Mine shafts were up to thirty feet deep and necessitated the use
of chalk lamps fuelled by animal fat with wicks of moss. The flint
was hauled up in baskets.
Common men and women were now buried in tombs within memorial
burial mounds of earth with stone entrances and interior chambers.
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