The Amesbury Archer: King of Stonehenge?

BBC ^ | 8/31/2005 | Andrew Fitzpatrick

[wildbill]

An Early Bronze Age grave In the spring of 2002 what started as a routine excavation was undertaken in advance of the building of a new school at Amesbury in Wiltshire. By the end of the excavation the richest Bronze Age burial yet found in Britain had been discovered. The Bronze Age man discovered there had been buried not far from the great temple of Stonehenge. He was a man who owned and could work the new and magical metals of gold and copper. And he had come from what is now central Europe, perhaps around the Alps. Was he a king of Stonehenge?

[wildbill]

Eight pages of really neat information about a Bronze Age burial site

[Kay Syrah]

and as it was the Friday of the May Bank Holiday weekend it was decided that the excavation of the grave should be completed that day. This might involve staying on a little bit late on a Friday afternoon, but not, it was thought, very late.

Chuckling here, as one who has lived in England, and understands the significance of that sentence. But thanks for posting this. A good read.

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for posting this article. The Amsbury Archer was fascinating when his grave was first discovered. With the additional details of his relative, and where he came from, it becomes a magnificent mystery.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "NY Post: Better a Bad Story than None as All (Able Danger)"

[Migraine]

How 'bout that articulated instep? I have a hard time visualizing that, but it seems it would make it difficult to climb or jump. Never heard of such a thing.

[Alexander Rubin]

Very very cool.

[OSHA]

.....showed for the first time that at this date there were individuals - and perhaps even families - of greater wealth and status than others.

He must have been a Republican!

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

Ya know something. Maybe the great changes in world history and regional communities of tribes were actually the result of traders, craftsmen (smiths for one)and businessmen bringing new technologies in and local procucts out.

Adam Smith was right about the ‘invisible hand.’

[SunkenCiv]

:’)