Unlike most burials in the Stonehenge Landscape, his body was not in a barrow, although it did appear to have been deliberately and carefully buried in the ditch.

Examination of the skeleton indicated that the man was local to the area and aged around 30 when he died.

He came to be known as an archer because of the stone wrist-guard and a number of flint arrowheads buried with him.

In fact, several of the arrowheads' tips were located in the skeleton's bones, suggesting that the man had been killed by them.

[1] His body was excavated in 1978 by Richard Atkinson and John G. Evans who had been re-examining an older trench in the ditch and bank of Stonehenge.