Gilbert Horner

Professor Gilbert Horner was a noted archaeologist who planned to open Devil's Hump in the 1970s, despite Olive Hawthorne's persistent warnings. As he told Alastair Fergus, the presenter of the BBC3 series The Passing Parade, he believed that he would discover the tomb of a Bronze Age warrior chieftain from 800 BC. In fact, the barrow contained Azal and his spacecraft. When it was opened, Horner was frozen to death. (TV: The Dæmons)