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Aldbourne Blowing Stone Natural Rock Feature |
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1 site Aldbourne Four Barrows Barrow Cemetery |
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Arn Hill Down Round Barrow(s) |
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79 sites Avebury & the Marlborough Downs Region |
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Ballards Copse Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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Battlesbury Camp Hillfort |
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Bilbury Rings Hillfort |
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Bincknoll Castle Hillfort |
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Boles Barrow Long Barrow |
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Botley Copse Long Barrow |
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Boyton Down Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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Boyton Down Round Barrow Round Barrow(s) |
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Bratton Castle & Westbury White Horse Hillfort |
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Budbury Hillfort (Destroyed) |
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Burderop Wood Stone Circle Stone Circle (Destroyed) |
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Bury Wood Camp Hillfort |
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Buxbury Hill Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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Casterley Camp Hillfort |
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Castle Combe Hillfort |
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Castle Ditches Hillfort |
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Castle Hill (Broad Blunsdon) Hillfort |
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Castle Rings Hillfort |
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Charlton Down Ditch Dyke |
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Chisbury Hillfort |
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Chiselbury Hillfort |
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Church End Ring Enclosure |
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Clearbury Ring Hillfort |
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Cley Hill Hillfort |
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Coate Stone Circle Stone Circle |
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Cobhill Barrow Round Barrow(s) |
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Codford Circle Enclosure |
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3 sites Cold Kitchen Hill Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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Colerne Park Round Barrow(s) |
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Cop Heap Round Barrow(s) |
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Corton Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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Cow Down Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Cow Down Barrow Cemetery |
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East Castle Enclosure |
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East Down Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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Ebsbury Hill Hillfort |
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Egbert's Stones Standing Stones |
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Enford Round Barrow(s) |
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Everleigh Barrows Barrow Cemetery |
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Fairmile Down Long Barrow |
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Ferne Hollow Round Barrow(s) |
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Figsbury Ring Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Forest Hill Farm Hillfort |
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Fosbury Camp Hillfort |
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Fussell's Lodge Long Barrow |
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Giant's Cave Long Barrow |
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1 site Giant's Grave (Downton) Long Barrow |
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Giant's Grave (Milton Hill) Long Barrow |
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Golden Barrow (destroyed) Round Barrow(s) |
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Grafton Disc Barrows Barrow Cemetery |
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Great Bradford Wood Enclosure |
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Green Barrow Farm Long Barrow |
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Grovely Castle Hillfort |
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Gunschurch Round Barrow(s) |
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Hanging Langford Camp Enclosure |
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Hangman's Copse Round Barrow(s) |
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1 site Jug's Grave Cairn(s) |
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King's Play Hill Long Barrow |
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Kington Down Farm Long Barrow |
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King Barrow Long Barrow |
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Kitt's Grave Long Barrow |
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Knook Castle Hillfort |
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Lanhill Long Barrow |
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Long Ivor Farm Henge |
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Lugbury Long Barrow |
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Marleycombe Hill Round Barrow(s) |
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Membury Camp Hillfort |
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Middle Hill Round Barrow(s) |
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Morgan's Hill Dyke |
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Mount Scylla Settlement Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Naish Hill Hillfort |
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Norton Bavant Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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Old Ditch Longbarrow Long Barrow |
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Old Sarum Hillfort |
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Old Wardour Castle Grotto |
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Oliver's Castle Hillfort |
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Park Hill Camp Hillfort |
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Pertwood Down Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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Pheasant Hotel Barrow Cemetery |
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Ringsbury Hillfort |
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Robin Hood's Bower Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Scratchbury Hillfort |
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Scrubbity Barrows Barrow Cemetery |
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Sherrington Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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1 site Sidbury Hill Hillfort |
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Silk Hill Barrow Cemetery |
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Smay Down Long Barrow (Destroyed) |
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Snail Down Barrow Cemetery |
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South Down Round Barrow(s) |
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42 sites Stonehenge and its Environs |
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Summer Down Round Barrow(s) |
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Sutton Veny Barrows Round Barrow(s) |
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Three Kings Barrows Round Barrow(s) |
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Tidcombe Long Barrow Long Barrow |
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Tilshead Lodge Longbarrow Long Barrow |
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Tinhead Hill
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Tinkley Earthwork Enclosure |
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Tow Barrow Long Barrow |
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Trow Down Round Barrow(s) |
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Upton Great Barrow Round Barrow(s) |
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Weather Hill Henge |
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White Barrow Long Barrow |
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White Sheet Hill Long Barrow |
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White Sheet Hill Hillfort |
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Wick Ball Camp Hillfort |
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Winkelbury Hillfort |
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Woodcutts Common Settlement Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Woodlands Earthwork Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Yarnbury Castle Hillfort |
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The Bloodstone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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East Knoyle Natural Rock Feature |
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Kenward Stone Carving |
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White Horses and Hill Figures - Day SchoolWiltshire Heritage Museum Saturday, 24 July 2010 A Day School exploring the chalk figures carved into the landscape of Britain with leading experts. Accompanying our summer exhibition White Horses and Hill Figures, the White Horses and Hill Figures Day School will feature talks by leading experts on the subject... continues... |
Posted by goffik13th July 2010ce Edited 13th July 2010ce |
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Talk by Paul Devereux - 17th June, Swindon Library Paul Devereux will be giving a talk on Sacred Geography in the reading room of Swindon's superb new Central Library on 17th June at 7.30pm. http://www.pauldevereux.co.uk/ Admission: £2.00 (£1.50 conc) |
Posted by tjj14th June 2010ce |
A Green Treasure from the Magic MountainsAs part of the Devizes Festival, on Tues, 15th June... continues... |
Posted by tjj 14th May 2010ce Edited 14th May 2010ce |
Prehistoric GeographyOne for the diary as this is some time off - Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Land use in the Solent Drainage System. An illustrated lecture by David Field, to be held at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes from 2:30pm on Saturday, 20 November 2010... continues... |
Posted by Littlestone13th May 2010ce Edited 14th May 2010ce |
The Great Stones Way to link Avebury and StonehengeApproval and funding have been granted for the advanced planning of The Great Stones Way (GSW)... continues... |
Posted by Chance10th April 2010ce |
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The green treasures from the magic mountains A lecture entitled, The green treasures from the magic mountains: the 'life story' of the magnificent Neolithic axehead from Breamore, will be given by Alison Sheridan at Devizes Town Hall, Wiltshire, from 7:00 pm on Tuesday, 15 June 2010. More here - http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/the-green-treasures-from-the-magic-mountains/ |
Posted by Littlestone 1st April 2010ce |
Wiltshire Heritage Museum Summer Exhibition: White Horses and Hill FiguresOn Saturday I visited the Summer Exhibition at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum: White Horses and Hill Figures I hesitated to post on it as many of the white horses in the Wiltshire area are not that old. The most recent is the Devizes horse which was cut to mark the millenium in the year 2000... continues... |
Posted by tjj 30th March 2010ce Edited 30th March 2010ce |
Lecture: The Parkers of HeytesburyHere's one for the 'common man' LECTURE: The Parkers of Heytesbury: The First Field Archaeologists Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes 2:30 pm, Saturday, 06 March, 2010 A lecture by Paul Everill about Stephen and John Parker, labourers from Heytesbury who helped William Cunnington with his excavations... continues... |
Posted by tjj 15th February 2010ce Edited 15th February 2010ce |
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Recent Discoveries in Archaeology in Wiltshire Some way off, but Recent Discoveries in Archaeology in Wiltshire by Melanie Pomeroy-Kellinger, Wiltshire County Archaeologist, at the Lecture Hall - Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum on, 9 March 2010 from 19:30, may be of interest. More here - http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/what-s-on/lectures/57-recent-discoveries-in-archaeology-in-wiltshire.html |
Posted by Littlestone 4th December 2009ce |
Wiltshire Heritage Museum - lectures in Dec/JanuarySaturday, December 19th 2009 at 2.30pm LECTURE - Illicit Antiquities: the scandal of our age, by Chris Chippendale £4.00 (£3.00 WANHS members) Booking advised Wednesday, 13th January 2010, 1.10pm-1.50pm LUNCHTIME TALK - by David Dawson Stonehenge - latest developments £2... continues... |
Posted by tjj 28th November 2009ce Edited 29th November 2009ce |
"Inspired by Stonehenge" exhibition and Julian Richards talkWith distinct sense of deja vu ... The "Inspired by Stonehenge" exhibition started at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery from 3rd October 2009 - 27th March 2010. Admission free: I have already seen this exhibition which is on tour from the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum and can recommend it... continues... |
Posted by tjj 2nd November 2009ce Edited 2nd November 2009ce |
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Stonehenge road closure gets go ahead Druids delight as Stonehenge road closure gets go ahead http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6860253.ece# |
Posted by ginger tt4th October 2009ce |
The Stonehenge Riverside Project - Recent Results"The Annual General Meeting of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society will take place at Devizes Town Hall, commencing at 2.30pm (10 October, 2009). This will be followed by a lecture from Prof. Mike Parker Pearson. "Mike's talk is entitled 'The Stonehenge Riverside Project - Recent Results'... continues... |
Posted by Littlestone 17th September 2009ce |
Keeping Up Appearances"About 4,500 years ago some inhabitants of Britain suddenly started wearing and being buried with jewellery. Subsequent centuries saw objects being fashioned out of amber, jet, gold, copper, bone and faience in a bewildering variety of forms... continues... |
Posted by Littlestone 8th September 2009ce |
Grant for the Wiltshire Heritage MuseumCulture minister Barbara Follett has announced a £150,000 grant for the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes. The grant will be used to create a new Bronze Age Gallery to house material excavated from the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. More here - continues... |
Posted by Littlestone 3rd September 2009ce |
Inspired by StonehengeAn exhibition featuring memorabilia about Stonehenge opened at Wiltshire Heritage Museum on 16 May and runs to 20 September 2009. "Inspired by Stonehenge focuses on the changing ways the monument has inspired and been experienced by visitors throughout the past two centuries... continues... |
Posted by Littlestone 31st May 2009ce Edited 1st June 2009ce |
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OUTING: Archaeological Walk on Salisbury Plain "A walk led by Roy Canham to explore the archaeology of Salisbury Plain Training Area. "A rare opportunity to see the historic landscape in areas that are usually closed to the public. This year the walk will be to the group of Neolithic Long Barrows and earthworks around Tilshead Lodge." More here - http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/events/index.php?Action=2&thID=397&prev=1 |
Posted by Heritage Action17th April 2009ce Edited 17th April 2009ce |
LECTURE: The Invisible Stone Circle: To See or Not to SeeA lecture by renowned archaeologist Aubrey Burl. at Wiltshire Heritage Museum. 2:30 pm, Saturday, 21 March, 2009 There are hundreds of stone circles in the British Isles. Every year hundreds of thousands of people visit them. Sometimes there is a sign, usually uninformative, occasionally inaccurate... continues... |
Posted by moss10th February 2009ce Edited 10th February 2009ce |
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Devizes, Wiltshire Heritage Museum. David Gunning: A Retrospective The exhibition includes a number of David Gunning's works on the theme of Neolithic monuments, including those at Avebury and Stonehenge. The exhibition is in the Museum's Art Gallery until 26 October 2008. More at - http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/events/index.php?Action=2&thID=330&prev=1 |
Posted by Littlestone 7th August 2008ce Edited 8th August 2008ce |
Inspired by Stonehenge"A survivor of one of the most audacious invasions of Stonehenge has turned up in time for this week's solstice celebrations, more than 40 years after all the perpetrators were believed to have perished in a fire... continues... |
Posted by Littlestone 21st June 2008ce Edited 25th June 2008ce |
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All About Stonehenge An exhibition of over forty images of Stonehenge now on display at Devizes Museum, Wiltshire until the 27 August 2007. |
Posted by Littlestone 16th August 2007ce Edited 17th August 2007ce |
From utter darkness to a thin mist: Early Excavators at AveburyLecture by Dr Ros Cleal on Wednesday, 28 March at the University of Bath in Swindon. "This lecture looks at the work of early investigators of Avebury from the mid-17th century to the mid-20th century... continues... |
Posted by Littlestone 23rd March 2007ce Edited 23rd March 2007ce |
Devizes Museum - Lecture on My Landscapes by Peter Fowler - 5th May 2007This event will consist of two halves: a short lecture exploring relationships between landscape and art, with particular reference to Wiltshire and to 'my landscapes', in both senses, as viewed over 40 years by an old archaeologist and over 4 years by a young painter... continues... |
Posted by moss 19th March 2007ce |
Devizes Museum; Uncertainty At Wiltshire HeritageJust before Christmas the Wiltshire Archaelogical and Natural History Society, which maintains the Wiltshire Heritage Museum, library and gallery in Devizes, heard from the county council that their grant for 2006/7 (£24,500) would not be renewed in 2007/8... continues... |
Posted by moss 11th February 2007ce Edited 14th February 2007ce |
Rampart find excites historiansA dig near Malmesbury town walls has uncovered a substantial stone-fronted defensive rampart and a deep ditch which could date to the Iron Age. Archaeologists believe the prehistoric hill fort would have had impressive multiple defences rising above the valley of the River Avon... continues... |
Posted by The Eternal 19th May 2006ce |
Burial Mound Preserved For FutureFrom an article published on the BBC News web site on 2nd February 2005: A burial ground on a Wiltshire farm has been protected from plough damage by an agreement between the farmer and Defra... continues... |
Posted by Kammer4th February 2005ce Edited 17th February 2006ce |
New Road Reveals Stone Age SiteFrom BBCi Archaeologists believe they may have stumbled upon a major Stone Age site - on the route of a new bypass. The site dates back between 250,000 and 300,000 years and may even provide evidence of one of the earliest uses of fire... continues... |
Posted by Jane6th October 2003ce Edited 10th February 2006ce |
Exhibition at Devizes MuseumCurrently showing at the museum in Devizes is a small exhibition taken from their amazing library... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon9th June 2003ce Edited 17th February 2006ce |
Wiltshire Heritage Museum FundingThis was posted today to the Stones Mailing List by Littlestone... continues... |
Posted by Holy McGrail23rd March 2003ce Edited 17th February 2006ce |
Wiltshire Bronze Age Pot Project at Devizes Museumgleaned from 'WeirdWiltshire.co.uk' 15 FEB - 22 APRIL, DEVIZES: The current exhibition at Wiltshire Heritage Museum reviews the progress of the five year project, Repairing the Past, the Wiltshire Bronze Age Pot Project, funded chiefly by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to conserve 105 prehistoric pots from Wiltshire... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon 25th February 2003ce Edited 17th February 2006ce |
Preserving Pitt Rivers' Bronze Age Pots in WiltshireA major conservation project by Wiltshire County Council and two Wiltshire museums to preserve over 100 Bronze Age pots has reached the halfway point... continues... |
Posted by phil 5th January 2003ce Edited 10th February 2006ce |
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Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: Two Episodes in the Artistic Approach to British AntiquityAn excellent essay by Sam Smiles from the Tate Research Journal. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo10th May 2009ce Edited 10th May 2009ce |
Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument RecordsA fine website, with an easy search engine. Once a site is found, there is a link to a local Ordnance Survey map of the area, with zoom facilities. The best bit is that all the sites are marked with their features on top of the existing modern features. Check out the Stonehenge Avenue for instance. |
Posted by The Eternal 31st January 2008ce |
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Devil's Den (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by earthstone5th September 2010ce |
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What a surprise this was... marvellous. Needing somewhere else to spend a few hours following a morning at Tow Barrow, Fosbury seemed to fit the bill nicely, judging by the 1:50K OS map. But reality often has a way of not living up to expectations, doesn't it? Not in this instance... Fosbury is very much a case of 'Ding dong!'... as the great Leslie Phillips might very well have said if he ever came here.... or even a 'Blimeus' uttered by a R*man legionnary tasked with storming the ramparts. After negotiating the maze of minor roads which criss-cross the area, I finally ascend from the east, near the Vernham Dean junction. To be honest I find it quite a slog in the heat of this sultry early afternoon, cloud beginning to roll in behind the morning's pristine blue skies. It is worth it since, upon arrival, the scale of the inner rampart is immediately apparent... much larger than I expected. The circumference is impressive in scope, too, the bivallate defences protecting what must clearly have been an extensive settlement in its day. Hell, yeah. According to the map the northern arc of the site is within foliage, investigation proving this to be correct. In fact the trees are some of the oldest, most handsome specimens I've seen in a long while, root systems encompassing the bank in a strangely beguiling manner. Then again I always did like woodland - feel at home in it .... perhaps the vestiges of some long held folk memory we all possess? Perhaps. Its then a little disappointing to find that appalling creation barbed wire in evidence in places. For me, the most impressive ramparts are upon the south western arc, these also boasting a superb view down into the valley of Hippenscombe. Nice. However the main entrance to the hillfort is, so it would seem, at the east, a typical affair of inturned parallel banks. I wouldn't be at all surprised if a nearby pond is an original feature specifically incorporated within the enclosure? Perhaps its just a reflection of my psyche today, but I reckon Fosbury has a 'special' aura about it, something that's heightened by the section of woodland. I glance at one of the massive trees and note a prominent piece of graffitti carved in the bark... 'Ha! Guy... unusual name for these parts. Then again it was the name of the leader of The Dambusters, so it was', I ponder. Suddenly - I kid you not - there is a low, deep roar as a World War 2 Avro Lancaster makes its way slowly up the valley.. the very type of aircraft the Dambusters flew, of course. I stand gobsmacked, for I am in the middle of reading the book. But then again, this IS Fosbury. |
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