The Amesbury Archer is an early Bronze Age (Bell Beaker) man whose grave was discovered during excavations at the site of a new housing development (grid reference SU16324043[1]) in Amesbury near Stonehenge. The grave was uncovered in May 2002. The man was middle aged when he died, estimated between 35 and 45,[2] and is believed to date from about 2300 BC. He is nicknamed "the Archer" because of the many arrowheads buried with him.[3] The grave contained more artefacts than any other early British Bronze Age burial, including the earliest known gold objects ever found in England. It was the first evidence of a very high status and wealth expressed in a burial from that time.[2] Previously, Bronze Age society had been assumed not to have been particularly hierarchical.[2]
The calibrated radiocarbon dates for his grave, and dating of Stonehenge, suggest the sarsens and trilithons at Stonehenge may have been raised by the time he was born,[4] although a new bluestone circle may have been raised around the time of his birth.[5]
^Fitzpatrick, A. P. (November 2013). The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen: Early Bell Beaker burials at Boscombe Down, Amesbury, Wiltshire. Wessex Archaeology. p. 6. ISBN 978-1874350620.
^ abcRoberts, Alice (2021). Ancestors. Simon & Schuster. pp. 242, 245, 246–248, 251, 255. ISBN 978-1-4711-8804-6.
^Wessex Archaeology The Amesbury Archer: Background Archived 15 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine
^Pearson et al, p. 627
^Morgan, James (21 September 2008). "BBC News: Dig Pinpoints Stonehenge Origins". Retrieved 15 June 2009.
The AmesburyArcher is an early Bronze Age (Bell Beaker) man whose grave was discovered during excavations at the site of a new housing development (grid...
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Fitzpatrick, Andrew P. (2011). The AmesburyArcher and the Boscombe Bowmen: Bell Beaker burials at Boscombe Down, Amesbury, Wiltshire. Wessex Archaeology...
prehistory of Stonehenge and the areas surrounding Salisbury, including the AmesburyArcher, the Wardour Hoard, and the collection of archaeology originally belonging...
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