Prehistoric 'House of the Dead' unearthed in Wiltshire
Posted on 09/03/2018 3:46:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A 'House of the Dead' has been discovered in Wiltshire dating back 5,000 years by University of Reading archaeologists and students, and could contain the ancestors of those who lived around Stonehenge and Avebury.
As part of the University's final Archaeology Field School in the Pewsey Vale, students and staff, with the support of volunteers from the area, have investigated the site of a Neolithic long barrow burial mound in a place known as Cat's Brain -- the first to be fully investigated in Wiltshire in half a century.
The monument, which predates nearby Marden Henge by over 1,000 years, may contain human remains buried there in around 3,600 BC. The monument was first spotted by aerial photography and followed up by geophysical survey imagery...
The Cat's Brain long barrow, found in the middle of a farmer's field halfway between the iconic prehistoric monuments of Avebury and Stonehenge, consists of two ditches flanking what appears to be a central building. This may have been covered with a mound made of the earth dug from the ditches, but has been ploughed flat over many centuries.
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Prehistoric 'House of the Dead' unearthed in Wiltshire
I’ve been to Avebury.
It’s a cool place.
If they can get enough DNA for analysis, it could be interesting.
I suspect it they will turn out just like our grandparents, only older.
Interesting
Impressive, wouldn’t it be a true statement that ancestors of Stonehenge people could be buried all over England?
Stonehenge, Marden Henge, Cats Brain...the English certainly can come up with interesting names for places.
:^) Twatt, Orkney remains my favorite in the British Isles, but among the English:.
Nothing would surprise any serious genealogist. :^)
Always. :^) Cheddar, moose, brother:
“The Cat’s Brain long barrow”
beware the barrow wights
Not to mention the soiled cat litter.
seems to me that I read somewhere that the people who built the henges were completely displaced out of england. that they may be welch. or they may have been killed out completely,
here it is. The henge population was almost entirely displaced after 2000 BC. Heck they even know enough about them to characterize them as a dark race—like maybe sardinian.
I’m saving that link to share. :)
The English sure do love their roosters it seems. :0)
Interesting.
:^)
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At least they like to crow about 'em. :^)
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