Wrexham, as a settlement, has been around for a long time. With the lowlands being thickly wooded, Wrexham's strategic position on the rising, but still fertile open ground, before the moors and mountains, was the last bastion for ancient tribes being pushed ever westwards. Beyond lay a sparse existence in the 'highlands'.

The last Ice Age retreated some 10,000 years ago, leaving large tracts of clays, sands and gravels in the Wrexham area and it even changed the course of the River Dee as it had previously flowed south from Chirk, to join the River Severn, but the glacial moraine blocked its path and turned it north to make its present course.

These glacial deposits probably covered any Old and Middle Stone Age artefacts; the first New Stone Age peoples, following the retreating ice west and north, were nomadic hunters and gatherers, so there is no trace of settlements - only occasional (lucky) finds of lost flint arrow heads and microliths, although there were substantial 'stone axe factories' at Penmaenmawr and Mynydd Rhiw (Llyn) - axes from these sites have been found across Europe, suggesting an active trade - which needed pathways.

Around 7,500 BC the land-bridges to continental Europe and Ireland were covered by the rising sea levels from melting ice and Britain became an island. However, about 4,500 BC a new wave of people came to Britain and spread westwards - these were farmers and for the first time, we start to see settlements. These people were also conversant in the use of bronze (an amalgam of 90 per cent copper and 10 per cent tin) and hence the Bronze Age was born (copper from Great Orme, Betws-y-Coed and Parys Mountain, tin from Cornwall).

With the stability of settlements and agriculture came rituals and formal burials, for people could share tasks whilst some tilled the ground and grew the crops, other were able to build monuments (typically Stone Henge and stone circles) and massive burial mounds.

This is where we start with the history of Wrexham about 1,700 BC 3,700 years ago - with the insurgence of the Beaker People of whom little is known but we can see Brymbo Man.