A cikin Iron Age yankin ya zama kudancin yankin na Pennine kabilar kira Brigantes. Yana da wannan kabilar da aka yi tunani sun gina dama dutse birãnensu a cikin da kuma a kusa da Sheffield.Bayan tashi na Romawa, da Sheffield yankin na iya kasance kudancin ɓangare na Briticton mulkin Elmet, tare da kogin Sheaf da kuma samar da wani ɓangare na da ke tsakanin wannan mulkin da kuma mulkin Mercia. A hankali, Anglicans tura yamma daga mulkin Deccan na Sheffield. A yanzu mulkin da aka samu a Creswell Crags zuwa gabas na birnin.
Daga 1570 zuwa 1584