Polished stones discovered near Stonehenge may have been part of a 4,000-year-old goldsmith’s toolkit, experts have claimed.
Archaeologists from the University of Leicester detected traces of gold on their surface, indicating they were once used as hammers or anvils for metalworking.
The artefacts had been buried in a Bronze Age grave in the village of Upton Lovell in Wiltshire, and were first excavated in 1801.
Two people were laid to rest in this ‘barrow’ – or burial mound – who