People gathered for great meat feasts at end of British bronze age, study shows

Evidence of millions of animal bones at sites in West Country and Surrey points to ‘age of feasting’

These days, revellers converge on the West Country from all parts of the UK and beyond to take part in the wonderful craziness of the Glastonbury festival.

It turns out that at the end of the bronze age – also a time of climatic and economic crisis – the same sort of impulse gripped people.