I’m surprised you would have heard anything at all of it in Australia…
I have a sister lives only a few miles away on the same range of hills and very interested in keeping me up to date with another amazing incident in much the same area… a small village called ‘Bleadon’… archaeologists dug, numerous, possibly hundreds of skeletons from beneath the local village school prior to some development… they decided to reconstruct the scull from one of the graves… and in an effort to keep the whole village community involved and informed held an open evening to display the finished bust. It was put out on a program called ‘Meet the ancestors’… by the BBC:
‘Bleadon Man’ is a skeleton of a 50 year-old man found during the building of new houses in Bleadon, Somerset, near Weston-super-Mare, in 1997. He had been 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 metres) tall and suffered from arthritis. The bones were carbon-dated to 100 BC, during the Iron Age, a finding supported by archaeological finds at the site. Testing of the mitochondrial DNA of local residents’ blood samples showed that five of them are descended from Bleadon man’s family. After viewing the facial reconstruction of Bleadon man, local people surmised that Guy Gibbs might be a relative even before the DNA results were released.