Live Science has a report about the latest research on a burial found in 1801 about ten miles from Stonehenge, and long interpreted as that of a shaman and his wife. The finds are now in the Devizes Museum. This new research has found evidence suggesting that the tools in the grave had been used for gold beating. That fact may well suggest a more complex social role for the couple, and to the religious dimension of metallurgy in early societies.
The wider implication is a further pointer to the landscape around Stonehenge as a ritual one, and that the whole complex of stones, earthworks and burials was a major focus of cult activity and devotion for many centuries.
The article can be seen at 4,000-year-old 'shaman' burial near Stonehenge has a golden secret
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