A bronze disc inlaid with gold symbols and two gold cone-shaped hats decorated with solar motifs will be on display for the first time in the UK at a landmark exhibition at the British Museum.
More than 250 objects are being lent to the nation's flagship museum by institutions in six European countries and across the UK. More than 400 objects will be on display at the British Museum in February for the first ever big exhibition on the story of Stonehenge.
The goal is to set the stone monument into the context of an era when there was a lot of social and technological change.
Most people know the monument, but they don't know the people or the time of the event. Neil Wilkin said that they were going to contextualise the monument.
Many of the objects are new discoveries, either from the landscape of Britain or Europe. Some people have never been to Britain.
The Nebra sky disc was created around 1600BC. LDA Sachsen-Anhalt is pictured.
The sky disc is from 3,600 years ago and is being displayed in Germany. It was discovered by treasure hunters in 1999 and is believed to represent the sun, moon and stars.
It is the earliest depiction of the universe in the world. It contains key astronomical information.
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Rock cakes? The builders may have liked mince pies.
Stonehenge-builders may have had enjoyable moments.
A gold hat is being displayed in Germany and is covered in solar symbols. The gold cone will come from a museum in Paris.
Some people argue that they represent the calendars of the universe, but others think that just the act of wearing them would make them a sun priest or priestess.
A 4,000-year-old timber monument called Seahenge, which was found on a Norfolk beach in 1998 because of shifting sands, is at the exhibition's centre.
Neil Wilkin says that you can't understand Stonehenge if you don't understand the European setting. Toby Melville.
The Lynn Museum in Norfolk has partially displayed it, consisting of a large upturned tree stump surrounded by 54 oak posts. There are many timber posts on show at the British Museum.
It is an important record of the importance of stone and wood to people. We can bring a monument that is arguably as important as the one we can't bring to the exhibition.
I was expecting the museum to say no when we asked for it.
The middle bronze Age had a gold spiral torc. Victoria Jones is pictured.
People tend to think of Stonehenge asquintessentially British, but actually this was a world of connection and interdependence right across Europe. We show that you can't understand Stonehenge if you don't understand the European setting.
The exhibition will be a landmark show that sets the great monument of Stonehenge in the context of one of the most remarkable eras of the 20th century, which saw huge social and technological revolutions alongside fundamental changes in people's relationship with each other.
