Devon treasure hunter locates Bronze Age settlement using Google Earth – and digs up 5,000-year-old

[Judi Lynn]

Devon treasure hunter locates Bronze Age settlement using Google Earth – and digs up 5,000-year-old pottery
By Exeter Express and Echo | Posted: October 22, 2014




A Devon treasure hunter has stunned professional archaeologists by locating a Bronze Age settlement using Google Earth.

Howard Jones shunned the usual methods of finding ancient communities and relied on the internet instead.

He trawled satellite images for the sort of terrain that would have offered food, water and shelter for a prehistoric settlement.

Howard used Google's overheard mapping site to zoom in on fields and farmland before pinpointing a spot in the South Hams.

The former Royal Marine then sought permission from the local landowner before heading down there to scour for remains.

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[Voice for Peace]

1. ahhhh.. kick

[ms liberty]

2. wow...awesome! thanks for posting! K&R. n/t

[Curmudgeoness]

3. I love stories like this

about people who do things that the professionals have not done. It must have been the best feeling in the world.

[niyad]

4. k and r and thanks for posting!

[Enthusiast]

5. This is some fascinating shit. Thank you, Judi Lynn.

[BrotherIvan]

6. LOL

Good on the smart dude too.

[shenmue]

7. Wow!

[Odin2005]

8. The People who built Stonehenge, the Bell-Beaker Folk.

They were probably an early wave of Indo-European speakers from Eastern Europe, speaking dialects ancestral to the Celtic and Italic languages. They brought the R1b Y-DNA haplotype that now dominates Western Europe. They introduced bronzze-working to Britain.

In England is a famous burial of a Bell Beaker man called the Avesbury Archer, probably a king or a shaman. Analysis of his teeth indicate he was born in the Alps. Leader of an invading warband?