A building site on Hobbs Lane in London unearths 5 million year old human skull. Quartermass investigates, but the investigation is merged with the military when a strange projectile is uncovered.
Prof. Quatermass is resisting the planners of a grisly rocket project known as the Dead Man's Deterrent, But then comes an interruption - Excavation work at a building site in Hobbs Lane, London, unearths a human skull which Dr Roney estimates to be five million years old, Then a strange projectile is dug up.—BGP