Home >

History >

Factual >

Murder At Stonehenge

image

They are the most famous ancient ruins in the world, but even now it is a mystery how the stones got there and what the site was used for

Constructed over 4000 years ago by Stone Age man, it was thought that it had been abandoned by local communities in 1500BC. That was until the 1923 discovery of a decapitated skeleton buried just outside the stone circle. The murder weapon was an iron sword made between 100BC and AD1000. But who was the murder victim? A British tribal leader killed by the Romans? Or perhaps a Saxon, the victim of the fierce wars that divided Southern England in the Anglo-Saxon period. Incredibly, no one realised the true significance of the bones. They were catalogued, boxed and stored – and thought to have been destroyed in the Blitz. But in 1999, archaeologist Mike Pitts discovered them in the Natural History Museum, inspiring a new quest to discover the identity of Stonehenge man .

Programme Information

More Like This