Just when you think you’ve heard it all of the different use cases for UAS, another one crops up; no pun intended. It appears, thanks to aerial photography, that a new (should that be old?) ancient house of the dead has been unearthed. The Neolithic burial chamber, which likely dates to approximately 5,600 to 5,700 years ago, was hidden in what looked like an ordinary wheat field.
An ancient house of the dead has been unearthed near Stonehenge.
The Neolithic burial chamber, which likely dates to approximately 5,600 to 5,700 years ago, would have been an earthen structure that housed the skeletons of some of the earliest inhabitants of Britain. The burial structure, known as a long barrow, was discovered in the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, which is dotted with ancient ruins from this period.
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The burial chamber was discovered in what looked like an ordinary wheat field, thanks to aerial footage that revealed the outline of some structure lying hidden below. The excavations have just begun, so the scientists have yet to send their findings to peer-reviewed journals; the archaeologists don’t yet know whether they will uncover skeletons or other artifacts in the long barrow, Leary said.
