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Bronze Age - Stonehenge Gold

An archaeologist visits Stonehenge and a Barrow burial to explore the Bronze Age. What we can still see is used to explore how, when and why Stonehenge was built, and why it was such an important centre for people at the time. Differing theories and contradictions in the evidence are discussed. There are also lots of barrow burials around Stonehenge and one of them, Bush Barrow Man, now in the Wiltshire Museum, is used to find out about Bronze Age times. He was buried surrounded by artefacts, including a gold cloak fastening, a dagger from Brittany and amber from Denmark, indicating that perhaps he was a very important person.

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