The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen - Andrew P Fitzpatrick

Found a few kilometres from Stonehenge, the graves of the
Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen date to the 24th century
BC and are two of the earliest Bell Beaker graves in Britain. The
Boscombe Bowmen is a collective burial and the Amesbury Archer is
a single burial but isotope analyses suggest that both were the
graves of incomers to Wessex. The objects placed in both graves
have strong continental connections and the metalworking tool
found in the grave of the Amesbury Archer may explain why his
mourners afforded him one of the most well-furnished burials yet
found in Europe. This excavation report contains a series of
wide-ranging studies and scientific analyses by an array of
experts and a discussion of the graves within their British and
continental European contexts.