Has Historians Rethinking Stonehenge A skeleton from 700 AD was found at Stonehenge in Britain.
Archaeologists say the man appears to have been executed with a sword.
A mysterious execution some 1,300 years ago could force historians to rewrite the history of Stonehenge, and even rethink their ideas about early English society, an archaeologist said today. To be important enough to be taken there for execution, the man may have been a king or someone who transgressed early law in some severe way. Stonehenge still draws thousands of visitors each year to Salisbury Plain in southwest England, and modern-day druids have fought for years for the right to worship at the stones on the summer solstice. Studies on his spine suggest he was decapitated from behind, probably at an execution ceremony rather than as a sacrifice, Pitts said. This body could yield vital clues about our society at that time.