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| Denis Grant King material retrieved from boot sales by Brian Edwards May 2002: Photograph of Will Young and two other measuring at an excavation. WH Smiths packet marked Avebury duplicate photographs. List of photographs and individual dates taken 1939, 1939-40, 1940. Large number glass slides and negatives of Avebury excavations and artefacts. Box of photographs. Unspecified artefact in box marked Avebury. Press cuttings (2) North Wilts Herald. Post card from DrM with message featuring AK. Drawing of entrance Stoney Littleton Long Barrow. Schematic of Stoney Littleton LB. Notebook pages of illustrated notes and tables of Ogbourne Maisey Down + list of pottery etc. Drawing of rectangular camp near Avebury. Drawing of the Sanctuary. Large format printed DGK schematic of Avebury. Linen sectioned map of s/west section of south-east sector, printed with detail hand -coloured in blue and signed by AK 1939 & another mounted on stiff card, pencil marked N C Cook, with pencil drawn sites of discovered stones etc. Packet listed ‘Avebury and Glastonbury pictures (my father’s)’. Printed drawings of Stonehenge, Glastonbury, by CGK. 7 page list of artefacts from Windmill Hill and Avebury monuments. List of antiquities “suitable for Salisbury” List of objects for Somerset List of artefacts and other objects suitable for collections List of flints 3 page list of artefacts Drawing of Roundway Down Packet of miscellaneous pencil notes Drawing stone positions Winterbourne Bassett stone circle/ notes on a cine film. Drawing and notes on Overton Hill/ Roman Road. Drawing and notes on Wilmington Long Man 1947. DGK’s “Avebury Journal” : 10 pages of notes 1940-49 March 15th (no year) notes on conversation with Miss cooper Notes on conversation with J.B.Priestley’s after his visit to Avebury March 30th 1939, Notes April 4th 1939 re Lowther and a joke about Roman Villa discovery… June `10th 1939 (drawing of Ave circle on rear plus instructions to place at corner of W.Kennet & Bath Road. July 14th 1939, notes on Seacourt mediaeval village/ schematic of Manton Down Long Barrow length and orientation. Notes probably from 13th August 1939 re appeal made to DGK on behalf of ordinary soldiers prior to him informing AK of the invasion and damage in the K.Avenue (there are photo’s in the DGK collection that accompany this). 14th August 1939 note on inspecting damage with Young and Cook 15th August 1939 Notes on AK’s reaction. Also note on archaeologist Miss Caton-Thompson & Mrs Ackland Hood (Mrs Arnold Foster) who visited Avebury with John Ruskin and watched him draw the stones ! 16th August 1939 Notes on meeting with a spiritualist who came to see AK with a pension scheme idea for ordinary people. Notes referring to a cine film taken of AK and excavation of stones with address in London. Letter from Will Young May 28th 1949 Letter from Will Young Sept 19th 1949 Letter to Muriel mentioning Mrs Keiller and a book on Aborigines by Daisy Bates. Letter to AK Aug 19th 1939 Letter to AK 11th March 1940 Fragment letter from AK to DGK Notes on Stanton Drew Notes on poverty 25 July 1939 Nd notes on a bombing raid near Avebury. ‘A few (autobiographical) notes on the life of DGK.’ More autobiographical notes, esp Avebury, to accompany an exhibition of paintings at Salisbury. 6 pristine ‘Avebury: an appeal to the nation’ booklets. Morven Institute Guide to the Museum at Avebury. Uncomplimentary notes on Yatesbury, schematic of a disappearing Long Barrow near Windmill Hill, notes on two round barrows near Yatesbury. AK in a deckchair. Drawing of Fowler’s Forge and associated notes on demolition and Stone 1. Lino-cut of ‘The Origin of Silbury Hill’ by DGK. OHMS envelopes with notes on Packet marked ‘Printers proofs of historical drawings’. There is still a lot of this collection floating around car boot sales in Wiltshire. If you come across anything please let me know as soon as possible. Over 7 bin bags of loose notes were THROWN AWAY! Aargh! PeteG Reply | with quote |  26th May 2002ce 19:34 |
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