Britain hasn't always been an island. It became an island after the end of the last Ice Age. The temperature rose and the ice cap melted, flooding the lower lying land that is now under the North Sea and the English Channel.

Around 10,000 BC Britain was peopled by small groups of hunters, gatherers and fishers. By 5000 BC Britain has finally become an island, and had also become heavily forested.

About 3000 BC Neolithic ( or New Stone Age) people  crossed the narrow sea from Europe in small boats covered with animal skins. These people kept animals and grew corn crops and knew how to make pottery.

They probably came from either the Iberian (Spanish) peninsula or even the North -African coast. They settled in western parts of Britain and Ireland, from Cornwall at the southwest end of Britain all the way to the far north.

They were small, dark, and long-headed people, and may be the forefathers of dark-haired inhabitants of Wales and Cornwall today. They settled in the western part of Britain and Ireland, from Cornwall at the southwest end of Britain all the way to the far north.

These were the first of several waves of invaders before the first arrival of the Romans in 55 BC.

To be continued.