University of Leicester experts have been examining a tool kit dating back 4,000 years.
The tool kit was found more than 200 years ago but its use was unknown until nowArchaeologists say a 4,000-year-old tool kit found among the grave of a Bronze Age spiritual leader was used for working with gold.
Researchers at the University of Leicester have re-examined grave goods discovered within the burial and found they were gold-working tools.Image caption,The tools were first found at the Upton Lovell G2a Bronze Age burial, which was excavated in 1801. She noticed what appeared to be gold residues on their surfaces and concluded the stone tools had been used for a range of different purposes.Some were used like hammers and anvils whereas others had been used to smooth other materials, Dr Tsoraki said.
The Wiltshire Museum said the man buried at Upton Lovell near Stonehenge, was a "highly skilled craftsman" who specialised in making gold objects.Researchers at the University of Leicester carried out wear-analysis of the grave goods
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