Posted on 08/25/2002 5:04:48 PM PDT by blam
Unearthed, the prince of Stonehenge
By Roger Highfield
(Filed: 21/08/2002)
A prehistoric prince with gold ear-rings has been found near Stonehenge a few yards away from the richest early Bronze Age burial in Britain.
Earlier this year, archaeologists found an aristocratic warrior, also with gold ear-rings, on Salisbury Plain and speculated that he may have been an ancient king of Stonehenge.
The body was laid to rest 4,300 years ago during the construction of the monument, along with stone arrow heads and slate wristguards that protected the arm from the recoil of the bow. Archaeologists named him the Amesbury Archer.
Now they have found another skeleton from the same period five yards away. The remains are those of a man, aged 25 to 30, buried in the same posture, on his left side with his face to the north, and legs bent.
His grave was bare, containing only the sharpened tusk of a boar, but contained the basket shaped ear-rings. The man may have been the archer's son, the prince of Stonehenge, said Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick, who led the dig by Wessex Archaeology.
DNA testing on their teeth will be carried out to find out if the two bodies are part of the same royal family.
Around 100 artefacts were found in the archer's grave -10 times as many as at graves from a similar period elsewhere in Britain.
The grave is dated to about 2300BC - around the time at which Stonehenge's inner circle of bluestones was being hauled from the Preseli mountains in South Wales.
The king, who was 5ft 9ins tall, lacked a left kneecap, suggesting he had suffered a serious injury. He was aged 35 to 50 when he died, when he was placed in a timber chamber about three miles from Stonehenge.
A valuation committee must now put a figure on the finds after David Masters, the Wiltshire coroner, declared the discoveries treasure.
The British Museum and the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum have both expressed an interest in providing the archer's final resting place.
John and Sylvia Savidge, who own Red House Farm where the burial chambers were unearthed, may receive a cash reward once the treasure has been valued.
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Most Jews OTOH think there are no Lost Tribes of Israel. They think the huge Northern Kingdom was assimilated into the South. They don't recognize that only a few Israelites were ever called Jews, the vast majority existing today as white Europeans and Americans.
The truth lies between them, but few on either side can see it.
Are you serious, or just trying to be silly?
>They are nordic, not celtic. Teutonic and gallic are not the same,
even though in modern day england, the two are mixed and indestinguishable.
The Nordics and Gauls are not exactly the same, just as Dutch and Flemish are not exactly the same. But ALL are Celtic. Members of the 12 Tribes of Israel were not exactly the same, but they were all Israelites.
Please read the 3-MINUTE HISTORY by clicking on my LostTribe Profile below for the details, and to read a short list of the many Celtic tribes which make up todays Europe and America.
>I've never before heard that the nordics are related to the gauls. And to be frank(pun intended), I don't yet beleive you. I will be looking into this.
Good for you. The more we study you more we learn.
>I knew that the celts of the british isles were somehow descended(sp?) of the gauls. And I have heard the theory that the first european celts somehow came from semites that were in the anatolian peninsula and were thought to be one of the lost tribes. THis much I have accepted as probable.
If you really want to cut through the haze get right on top of the subject, go to the 20,000+ Assyrian tablets now in the British Museum. It will change your whole perspective on the population of Europe, as well as how the Old Testament really reads. If you go to the link at my FR Profile by clicking on LostTribe below and looking for Assyrian Tablets, that author has done an excellent job of bringing those Assyrian Tablets to life in a small and inexpensive but very readible book. You will never view history the same.
>Now, I have one more race for you to explain. The slavs..... I suppose you are going to tell me these too are semites and are the same as celts and nordics?
Ha! Nope. The Slavs are not the same as the Celts.
For which ancients? There are lots of artifacts and records which indicate that is not out of line for Israelites/Celts, both males and females. Neither was 6' way out of line, but neither was it common. For other races, perhaps it was.
Thank You for the note. It is appreciated!
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