Stonehenge | Honouring The Ancient Dead
Earlier in the summer Mike Pitts and Julian Richards of the Riverside Project contacted HAD to inform us of a dig into Aubrey Hole VII in which fragmentary human remains excavated between the wars, mostly from the ditch, had been deposited. They wanted to do this to test the bones using techniques not available before their reburial to ascertain a date of death and place in which the deceased had lived before being buried at Stonehenge. This was in support of the theory that Stonehenge …