The Five Knolls are a group of barrows almost a mile from Dunstable. There are seven barrows in the group, which have produced Neolithic and Bronze Age finds. In 1928-9, the northernmost of these mounds was excavated by the famous archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and a skeleton of a woman was found in the centre. She was lay on her right side, with her knees drawn up to her face and her right hand at her jaw. She had a flint knife placed under her right shoulder. The burial was dated to the late Neolithic period. At a later period, two cremation burials were added to the barrow, and during the Saxon period some thirty people were buried in the barrow - as they all had their hands tied behind their backs, they may have been the victims of a massacre.

In 2008, Luton Museums Service asked the Partnership to reconstruct the face of this Bronze Age woman.