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The Amesbury Archer

Amesbury, Wiltshire

The richest early Bronze Age grave in Britain, near Stonehenge.

In 2002 builders in Amesbury uncovered a grave. The man inside, buried around 2300 BC, had copper knives, 16 arrowheads, Beaker pots, metalworking tools and gold hair ornaments, the oldest gold found in England.

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When
c. 2300 BC
Where
51.1700, -1.7650
Group
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Visiting

His grave goods are at Salisbury Museum.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

He had more things buried with him than any other early Bronze Age grave in Britain, though that is a count from the site itself and not a formal comparison.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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