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apparently died from the impact of at least four 

 flint-tipped arrows, around 2300 cal BC (Evans et 

 al. 1984; Pitts 2001, chapter 14). This was the only 

 directly dated human bone from Stonehenge, apart 

 from a cremation burial shown to pre-date 2000 

 cal BC in an early analysis (Cleal et al. 1995, 519). 

 The 1926 skeleton remains unlocated (it may have 

 been returned to Hawley: Pitts 2001, 302 and 

 footnote 638), and the 1922 one is presumably 

 somewhere in the ground. 



Received date 



In 1999 burial 4.10.4 was thought Neolithic, or 

 possibly Roman. Hawley initially believed it 



Neolithic, because the grave fill, which he 'sifted', 

 contained no artefacts or stone fragments. He had 

 identified a 'Stonehenge Layer' of debris from 

 megalith dressing which blanketed most of the site. 

 Anything found beneath this 'layer' he ascribed to 

 a pre-Stonehenge date (Hawley 1920-26, 2-3 

 November). 



Arthur Keith (Royal College of Surgeons) 

 proposed the burial was Roman, 'or more probably 

 [from] the centuries immediately preceding' this 

 era, on the evidence of skull shape. Hawley accepted 

 this judgement without comment (Hawley 1925, 

 31-3), as he did Keith's identification of the 

 individual as male: Hawley had earlier written in 

 the diary (until the rediscovery, the most complete 



