These objects date to the very start of the Bronze Age, or the 'Copper Age', 2,500-2,000 BC. The 'Beaker' name comes from the 'Beaker' culture, named after pots, which were part of a distinct set ...

In June of that year, the driver of a bulldozer found this glass beaker and amazingly, for such a fragile and ancient object, it was intact. It was made and used by the Anglo Saxons in the 7th ...