 More impressive remains include stone circles, such as Birkrigg stone circle, Long Meg and Her Daughters, Swinside, and Little Meg.32 bronze artefacts have been discovered in the Furness district covering a long period of time (c. 2300–500 BCE), suggesting that this region was held to have special meaning to the people there.In the Late Bronze Age, defended hilltop settlements along the northern shore of Morecambe Bay, with metalworking, special functions and long-term deposition of artefacts associated with them, were probably precursors to later Iron Age hill-forts.