(Cardiff University via SWNS)

By Stephen Beech

Bronze Age Britons gathered for huge "food festivals" - with pork, beef and lamb on the menu, reveals new research.

State-of-the-art analysis of bones found in rubbish heaps from around 3,000 years ago shows people traveled with their animals from "far and wide" for the events.

Middens - "astonishing" garbage tips which became part of the British landscape - are revealing the distances people came to feast together at the end of the Bronze Age .

Archaeologists from Cardiff University used cutting-edge isotope analysis on material found within six middens in Wiltshire and the Thames Valley in the largest study of its kind.

The results, published in the journal iScience , reveal where the animals that were feasted on were raised, an

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