Letter: Back to Bronze

Mark McLaughlin needs to sort out his Bronze Age warriors from his Viking invaders (your report, 23 January).

He mentions stories of “Bronze Age Scandinavian invaders killing men and women”, but the European Bronze Age was from around 3,000 BC to 700 BC, when the Iron Age is conventionally thought to have begun, and the Norse incursions into the British Isles only began in the 9th century of the Christian era.

Archaeologists and historians have usually painted the Bronze Age as a relatively peaceful time, with the natives too busy erecting megaliths and standing stones to have time for killing each other.

Harry D Watson

Braehead Grove

Edinburgh