Midsomer Barrow landowner Gareth Heldman is murdered with an Iron Age spear, on the same spot where his father was killed many years before during an archaeologists' dig at the village's prehistoric earthworks. Meanwhile, troupes of new age travellers (whom Heldman strongly disapproved of) are arriving to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21st. Barnaby finds Heldman was a womaniser, with a tangled web of offspring. He also has to reopen the file on the thirty-year-old murder of Roger Heldman and investigate a tale of lost treasure.
Quest roles:
Henry Ian Cusick(Gareth Heldman), Nicholas Rowe(Edward Stannington), Lynda Bellingham(Jane Willows), Susannah Doyle(Vanessa Stone), Rebecca Saire(Miriam Heartley-Reade), Terrence Hardiman(Dr. James Lavery), Malcolm Tierney(Per Hansen), Jim Carter(Nathan Green), Diana Kent(Anne Heldman), Nick Barber(Harry Green), Tim Treloar(Uniformed Police Officer), Sally Beaumont(Hippy), Michael Thompson(Hippy)