A SKELETON found in a shallow grave at Stonehenge is of a man who was
executed, say archaeologists. The find has shifted their ideas about what
Stonehenge was used for, and when.
The skeleton shows definite signs of decapitation with a metal sword. “It has
completely changed the way I think about Stonehenge,” says Mike Pitts, an
independent archaeologist who examined it. The bones were unearthed in 1923, but
were misplaced during the Second World War. Until last year they were hidden
away in a cardboard box in the stores of London’s Natural History Museum.
Jacqueline McKinley of the organisation…
