Elite Early Bronze Age culture of southern Britain defined by rich barrow burials containing gold, amber, and faience, associated with the final construction phases of Stonehenge.
Ended around 1400–1200 BCE as the Wessex II phase closed and was succeeded by the Knighton Heath cultural period of Middle Bronze Age Britain, with the distinctive rich-grave tradition of the Wessex culture fading out.
Accessible, in-print survey of prehistoric Britain covering the Early Bronze Age Wessex culture for a general reader.
Vivid accessible account of Bronze Age Britain's landscapes, monuments, and beliefs by a leading field archaeologist, giving Wessex-culture readers the wider British Bronze Age.