The dagger, flint arrowheads, wrist guard and ceramic pot are all trappings of burials belonging to a group of people who arrived in the British Isles somewhere around 4500 years ago. The pot – or beaker – led to them being called the ‘Beaker people’ by historians, which seems a little unfair …

Archaeologists reckon that people buried dogs in the Iron Age with some form of ritual significance – that they might help to appease the spirits and underworld. This fits well with the idea that the dog was a guardian in the real world …