Source: Oxford Archeology

In 2012 the Olympic sailing events were held in Portland, Dorset, UK. In preparation for the Olympics, in order to improve transport links to Portland, a relief road was built over a hill in the Dorset Downs, called “The Ridgeway”. It was during the construction of this road that a completely unexpected archaeological discovery was made.

In 2009, the driver of a mechanical excavator, working on the foundation of the road, noticed bones in the chalky soil in the bucke...