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Built Heritage
by Bob Davis, Anne Upson and Rosamund J. Cleal

Study of the Built Heritage Resource to Date

In contrast to the considerable body of past

investigation and recording of the important
prehistoric landscape, previous study of the extant
built heritage of the area has been modest. However,
even some early visitors to the area, such as Stukeley,
although initially drawn by the prehistoric
monuments, were also aware of some of the buildings
of the area, evidenced by his sketch of the gabled front
of Avebury Manor of 1723 and by his many detailed
drawings and plans, including highly detailed and
apparently accurate representations of the village,
which include ‘birds eye’ views of many of the houses,
other buildings and infrastructure such as roads and
tracks (see Ucko et al. 1991 for a study including
many previously unpublished views).
It is only in recent decades that the study of the
vernacular built heritage has been given the
importance that it deserves. Even the iconic Buildings
of England series is subject to the criticism that the
first editions of its county volumes focused
disproportionately on the churches and higher status
buildings of each settlement, while confining mention
of the local vernacular buildings to a general passage
resulting from a ‘Perambulation’. In the edition of
1975 the only houses described in Avebury parish are
Avebury and Trusloe Manors, West Kennett House,
and Bannings and Westbrook farmhouses; only
Avebury Manor is described at any length (Pevsner,
revised Cherry 1975, 96–103, 564).
Due to its considerable national and international Plate 39 The Dovecote, Avebury (© Erica Gittins)
importance, the archaeological resource of the
prehistoric to medieval periods within the WHS has • Church of St James (Pl. 34) Grade I
been investigated and surveyed in detail, while the • Avebury Manor (Pl. 35) Grade I
less significant remains of its post-medieval and • Great Barn at Avebury Manor (Pl. 38) Grade I
modern past have not been subject of any • Dovecote at Avebury Manor (Pl. 39) Grade II*
comprehensive study. Conservation Area Statements
prepared for Avebury and West Kennett A total of 14 of the 82 Listed buildings are
Conservation Areas in 2003 provide the most associated with Avebury Manor, and include the
comprehensive analysis of the surviving built heritage house, former stables, racquets court, garden walls,
of the area to date. gates and statuary. Other built heritage ‘types’ well
represented in the group of Listed buildings are
farmhouses (6), other farm buildings (6), cottages
The Designated Resource (14), milestones (5) and boundary walls, gates and
railings (18).
Listed Buildings The vast majority of the Listed buildings are
This heritage-rich and relatively unspoilt part of rural situated within one of the nucleated settlements; the
Wiltshire is well-represented on the List of Buildings of notable exceptions being a series of milestones along
Special Architectural or Historic Interest. The designated the A4 and A361, and Down Barn Cottage in an
area contains a total of 82 Listed buildings, only four isolated location on Overton Down. The village of
of which are listed at above Grade II. The higher Avebury has a total of 44 Listed buildings, Avebury
grade buildings are all situated at the heart of the Trusloe has nine, and Beckhampton and West
village of Avebury and comprise: Kennett have eight each.
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410000
Winterbourne
Monkton

World Heritage Site

Detailed area shown in Fig. 24

Avebury Henge 170000

Down Barn Cottage

Milestone Beckhampton
House
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West Kennett Fyfield
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Figure 23 Listed buildings in the Avebury WHS

Conservation Areas areas, and provide a good level of information about

The Avebury area of the WHS also contains two the development of the built heritage, locally
Conservation Areas: the settlements of Avebury and distinctive materials, and their deployment in
West Kennett, both of which were designated in 1975 different periods.
(Fig. 24).
The Avebury Conservation Area includes the
prehistoric circle, the entire village centre and lands to Character of the Built Heritage
north and south, and extends westwards over the line
of the River Kennet to include the northern part of Settlement characterisation
Avebury Trusloe, including Trusloe Manor and the The settlement pattern within the WHS is
buildings along Bray Street. It also extends south to characterised by a small number of villages located in
include Chapel Cottages on the edge of the later the Winterbourne and Kennet River valleys, and a
settlement core (Fig. 23). few isolated farmsteads. The villages are traditionally
The West Kennett Conservation Area includes of nucleated form, though in some cases this has
Manor Farm and West Kennett Farm to the south of been affected by later ribbon development along
the A4, and West Kennett House and all other major routes.
developed sites to the north of the main road The pattern of settlement has generally been
(Fig. 24). dictated by the need for water and only the village of
Both settlements contain a varied mix of Avebury itself appears to have been sited deliberately
architectural styles and materials, reflecting the range in close association with the prehistoric monument.
of locally available materials, and the utilisation of Even then, the village is also close to the
imported materials in later buildings. Conservation Winterbourne which flows from north to south to the
Area Statements have been prepared for both of these west of the village.
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Grade I listed
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Avebury Henge
Grade II listed Avebury Dovecote

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Great Barn Silbury House
Bannings
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Trusloe Manor

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Figure 24 Listed buildings in Avebury and Avebury Trusloe

Vernacular building the modern vernacular, dating to the 18th, 19th and
The vernacular built heritage resource is dominated 20th centuries demonstrate the availability of a
by dwellings and farm buildings constructed from a greater range of materials such as plain tile and slate,
variety of readily available and local materials. These giving the roofscapes of the various villages their
predominantly include timber framing, sarsen and existing diverse appearance. Traditional windows and
limestone, while flint, chalk and cob were also doors are also typical of the southern region with
traditionally used. Lime has been the traditional mainly small timber framed casements used.
bonding material and this has also added a distinctive Surviving historic farm buildings contain timber
character to the appearance of the area. framing of both oak and elm and are also built to
One of the most notable features of the built regional plan types such as rectangular threshing
heritage of the area is the known use of components barns, cart sheds and stables. However, no extensive
of the prehistoric stone circle and avenues to provide survey has been made of the plan form and layout of
vernacular building materials. The process was well farm complexes within the WHS. Farm buildings in
known, with some local families specialising in stone- the area reflect the many agricultural improvements
breaking, which was also carried out by farmers. imposed by government and fashion and show
The tradition was described by Stukeley, with the characteristic expansion of farm yards and
reference to specific local families, and demonstrates buildings required to keep pace with the needs of
that this activity was carried out over a number of agriculture. Together with surviving examples of
centuries up to and including the 18th century. This traditional farm buildings, there are numerous
provides one of the most tangible links between the examples of more modern and functional buildings
prehistoric monuments of the area and the built alongside. There is also a predominance of modern
heritage (see Gillings et al. 2008 for a fuller external cladding to barns (Pl. 41) and this includes
description of stone breaking). timber weatherboarding and corrugated metal and
Traditional roofing was again generally typical of asbestos sheet.
the southern region, with simple steep pitched roofs Whilst the farms have been the subject of major
covered in thatch; in this case long straw wheat. Many changes and expansions the individual houses of the
examples of the traditional thatched roof (Pl. 40) nucleated settlements retain their traditional form
covering still exist within the WHS, but examples of and are generally set within their well-defined
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Plate 40 Traditional thatched roof, South Street, Avebury Trusloe (© Erica Gittins)

Plate 41 Modern agricultural buildings, Avebury Trusloe (© Erica Gittins)

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Plate 42 United Reformed Church, Green Street, Avebury (© Erica Gittins)

enclosures or boundaries. The dwellings are century (Treasure 1991; Upson with Davis 2011).
characterised by typically modest one- and two- Smaller examples are found at Avebury Trusloe,
storey cottages built to a post-medieval rectangular Beckhampton, East Kennett and West Kennett and
plan form with end or central chimney stacks. this architecture is represented in all of the
There are also examples of 19th-century estate settlements as well as being located along the main
buildings in Avebury and the surrounding area which east–west A4 road.
provide a distinctive and recognisable stylistic Stylistically these buildings range in date from the
element to the built heritage, and also reflect the 16th century to the 18th and 19th century, and those
changing land ownership of the area. The rest of the earlier houses, such as Avebury Manor, demonstrate
built resource is typified by pre-fabricated farm architecture of successive periods through their
buildings and modern houses, including local incremental extension and embellishment. The
authority stock, which form part the modern element quality of this architecture is partly a reflection
of the settlements. of traditional styles mixed with modern design
and the availability of materials. The 18th and
Gentry-owned houses 19th centuries saw significant advances in both design
A number of houses within the WHS were built or and materials. The Avebury WHS has excellent
developed by gentry families and were used, in some examples of these types of buildings. Architectural
cases only occasionally, by those families. Avebury features such as sash windows and slate-covered
Manor is the largest of these, and appears to have low pitched roofs together with rendered
been built or rebuilt in the mid-16th century, exteriors and brick elevations are all well
considerably enlarged around 1600, enhanced represented. Landscaped formal gardens have been
internally in the first half of the 18th century and laid out and in many cases their proportions
substantially restored and enlarged in the early 20th maintained by historical boundaries.
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Plate 43 Iron railings on low stone brick walls, High Street, Avebury (© Erica Gittins)

Christian foundations particularly notable example is the thatched sarsen

Christian foundations are also represented within the wall around Truslowe Manor. Avebury Manor Old
WHS. The site on which Avebury Manor and Garden Farmyard also includes an unusual example of an
stands was that of a Benedictine alien cell, but no inscription in sarsen, on the boundary wall between
certain tangible remains of this survive (an example the ‘Plough Way’ or South Drive and the farmyard. A
of possibly in situ pre-16th-century stonework large sarsen within the wall is inscribed ‘Sr AW Kt
mentioned by Sir Francis Knowles as found during 1797’, Sir Adam Williamson being at that time the
his work on the house (Knowles 1958, 360) cannot owner of Avebury Manor, recently returned from the
now be identified although it is possible that it is West Indies.
buried under a small area of late 20th-century The significance and quality of boundary features
render). St James Church at Avebury has origins in within the WHS is demonstrated by their inclusion on
the Saxon period with later Norman and post- the statutory list. There are a total of 18 Listed hard
medieval additions and alterations (see Anglo-Saxon landscape features within the WHS, including walls,
and Medieval section, above). The Nonconformist gates and railings, as well as the very locally distinctive
movement is also represented in Avebury by the drainage channels using sarsen setts along the High
United Reformed Church (Pl. 42) in Green Street. Street in Avebury village. Iron railings set on low
Material used in the fabric of St James includes flint, stone (Pl. 43), and later brick walls, are a particular
sarsen, limestone and brick, largely reflecting and feature of Avebury village, and survive in association
maintaining the local character, while the roofing with quite modest houses. A local anecdote records
material is largely slate. that the survival of iron railings at Avebury Manor,
and perhaps elsewhere in the village, during the
Boundary features metal-collections of World War II, was due to the
As a result of the modern expansion of farming refusal of Alexander Keiller, the then owner of
techniques in the area, the overriding impression of Avebury Manor, to allow them to be taken, but there
the open landscape field boundaries is of modern appears to be no documentation to support this.
fencing such as post and wire. The more established
boundaries, particularly within and around the Milestones
settlements, demonstrate the local vernacular of the Features relating to transport also add distinctiveness
area with a variety of materials and styles employed. to the local scene. Avebury was at the centre of an
These include, most notably, rendered cob on sarsen important east–west cross roads for many years. By
footings with traditional thatched, stone and clay tile the late 18th century the popularity of Bath to the
copings. These are mainly employed around farmyard west was at its height and the road to the west was
enclosures and domestic property boundaries, and a improved by this time. Traditional roadside coaching
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inns are represented within the area, and a group of

five listed milestones relating to the 18th-century
turnpikes survive.

Street furniture
Street furniture is chiefly represented by period
telephone and Royal Mail post boxes (Pl. 44). These
traditional red features, once taken for granted within
the English village, are now becoming a rarity. The
World Heritage status of the Avebury area has helped
to preserve these iconic items and they continue to
form an important part of the streetscape.

Military
There is little or no evidence of specific military
features within the WHS. However, there are features
relating to the Second World War period located just
outside the WHS area to the west. These features
principally relate to the abandoned RAF airfield at
Yatesbury and include hangars, buildings and
defensive structures such as pill boxes. A single post-
Second World War Royal Observer’s post survives on
Waden Hill.

Period Summaries

Saxon and Medieval

The Church of St James, Avebury, dates from the 10th
century, with alterations in the 12th and subsequent
centuries up to the 15th. The nave is Anglo-Saxon,
with 15th-century aisles replacing late 12th-century Plate 44 Royal Mail post box, Avebury Trusloe
narrower ones, and a 13th-century chancel. (© Erica Gittins)
While this is the only known extant built fabric of
the period within the Avebury area of the WHS, there
is considerable further evidence of contemporary The 16th-century east range of Avebury Manor,
building in the form of complex earthworks, including its dovecote, and the surviving elements of Trusloe
building platforms, especially to either side of the Manor are all constructed of the local sarsen rubble –
River Kennet between Avebury Manor and Trusloe the former rendered, the second previously rendered,
Manor. A hollow-way running north through Avebury and the last lined with chalkstone – and all have stone
Manor Park may represent an early extension of slate roofs. The dovecote at West Kennett Farm is
settlement in that direction. also of sarsen, and the central early range of the Red
Lion is of rendered sarsen rubble. Due to the very
16th century hard and unworkable nature of the sarsen rubble,
A small group of buildings date securely to the most quoins and all dressings were of limestone
16th century: or chalkstone.

• Avebury Manor (Pl. 35) 17th century

• Avebury Trusloe Manor Fourteen of the listed buildings within the area date
• Dovecote at Avebury Manor (Pl. 39) to the 17th century, and another three to the late
17th/early 18th century. It is to be assumed that any
While a further two date to the late 16th/early building of this date, which survives in anything like
17th century: authentic condition, will be Listed and therefore a
considerable amount of information about this period
• Dovecote at West Kennett Farm of building is available through listing descriptions.
• Red Lion Public House (formerly a farmhouse), However, the descriptions written some decades ago
Avebury (Pl. 45) were regularly prepared from an external inspection
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Plate 45 The Red Lion, Avebury (© Erica Gittins)

only, leaving a considerable proportion of the stone dwarf walls and is nationally a relatively rare
evidence untapped. and therefore significant survival of this date.
The majority of the Listed buildings of this date Dendrochronology has dated some of the
are cottages; regularly found in pairs or short linear principal timbers to a felling date of around 1300,
ranges, and are of low, linear proportions, with first with the timbers representing at least two previous
floor windows immediately below the eaves. Many buildings, one probably an aisled barn, and one a
retain their thatched roofs, which would originally cruck building (of which two partial blades survive).
have been ubiquitous and of long straw wheat. The majority of the Barn is in elm, and documentary
Dormers are not a feature of this period of cottage, sources record it as ‘New Barn’ in 1695.
and ‘eyebrows’ in the eaves line are very rare. Developments which may be classed as part of the
Three Listed farmhouses also date to this period – built heritage in the sense that they involve
Manor Farm House and West Kennett Farmhouse considerable construction include the creation or
in West Kennett, and Westbrook Farmhouse in ‘floating’ of watermeadows within the WHS. There
Avebury Trusloe. Although Westbrook Farmhouse is are extant traces of at least one carrier alongside the
thatched, the other two have plain tile roofs. Winterbourne north of New Bridge and the 1924
These 17th-century farmhouses and cottages are edition of the Ordnance Survey map of the area shows
almost exclusively built of sarsen rubble, though in an aqueduct crossing the Winterbourne just upstream
the case of West Kennett Farmhouse, the sarsen has of the bridge. Water is shown at least along one stretch
been squared and coursed. Some of the higher status of the carrier in a plan of Avebury Manor of 1695
dwellings have limestone or brick dressings, while (Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre), indicating
many of the cottages have been colour- or white- that much of the system was in place by then. The OS
washed. While the majority of buildings of this date map of 1924 seems to show a fairly simple system,
were of sarsen, a small number of cottages introduced probably with overbank flooding from the carrier.
brick to the local scene. Water meadows were established quite early in
Another notable building dating to this period is Wiltshire and it is entirely likely that a system was
the Barn which was originally part of Avebury Manor operating in the Avebury area before the end of the
Farm and is now part of the National Trust’s ‘Old 17th century, but there is also some indication that
Farmyard’ area. This large, nine-bay thatched, aisled systems were being used and maintained into the late
barn is of timber frame with weatherboarding set on 18th century.
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18th century
By far the majority of the Listed buildings within the
Avebury WHS area date to the 18th century. This
period includes the listed milestones, a number of
monuments in St James’ churchyard, and several hard
landscape features including boundary walls, gates
and railings.
The domestic buildings of this period begin to
demonstrate to a greater degree the use of imported
materials, in particular brick and plain tile. A number
of fine houses displaying high quality brickwork, such
as Bannings Farmhouse, West Kennett House,
Beckhampton House and Silbury House were built
during this period. In Avebury, some fine 18th-
century houses were built along the High Street.
These buildings were not subject to the 20th-century
clearance activities, and therefore the built heritage
character of the High Street within the monument is
disproportionately of this type of property.
Although still often related to the agricultural
economy, these houses display reference to the Plate 46 20th-century housing in Avebury Trusloe
national fashions in building of their day, made (© Erica Gittins)
possible by access to a greater range of non-indigenous
building materials. The houses became taller, with buildings on both sides of the main road through
more generous floor to ceiling heights, and with West Kennett and associated worker’s cottages.
habitable attic spaces over two principal floors such as At least one building, known in the late 20th/early
at Bannings Farmhouse, and even three principal 21st centuries as ‘Avebury Antiques’ still carries the
floors at West Kennett House. The construction of traces of an advertising sign on its western gable end,
these houses introduced a mix of materials and variety advertising ‘Perry’s Hotel’, an important village
of building forms and architectural detail which business through much of the 20th century. Other
characterises the area today. industries, including Titcombe carpenters, a
A number of farm buildings dating to this period butcher’s, a baker’s and a rope walk, have left no
also survive. Whilst most of these would traditionally visible traces externally. Rawlins Garage, which stood
have been timber-framed and weatherboarded with in the early 20th century adjacent to the Cove stones,
thatched roofs, a small but significant group of stone- was moved in the 1930s to a site just outside the
built farm buildings also survives, most notably those circle, partly funded by Alexander Keiller, and was
belonging to Avebury Manor Farm. finally demolished in the early 21st century by the
The 18th century also saw the establishment of then owners.
one of the very few industries within the area, One of the most notable impacts on the built
evidenced by reference to a malthouse on the lands of heritage of Avebury was that instigated by Alexander
West Kennett Farm in 1745. Keiller in the 1930s. His ambitious programme of
At least one structure in the landscape, a small but works to improve the understanding and condition of
elegant brick-built bridge over the Winterbourne the stone circle led to a move to reduce the number of
from Waden Hill to Silbury Meadow appears to have buildings within the monument, although
been built in 1793/4 as part of the arrangements for demolitions by Alexander Keiller were a very minor
enclosure and at least in part financed as part of the element in the eventual removal of a number of
process, as documented in correspondence between buildings. Documentation in the Alexander Keiller
Richard Hickley, steward to the owners of Avebury Museum – principally an annotated map – shows that
Manor, and the owners, Anne and Adam Williamson most removals and demolition took place during the
(Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre 184/7). 1950s when a large part of the site was in National
Trust ownership and the Ministry of Works
19th and 20th centuries supported this work. The demolitions took place
New development in the area during the 19th century alongside the development of alternative housing at
appears to have been relatively modest, though the Avebury Trusloe to the west (Pl. 46), establishing the
century did see the growth of another of the very few 20th-century character of the southern part of that
industries in the area – George Butler’s Brewery, with detached settlement.
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Modern Avebury a ‘beautiful parasite’ in 1865. Lubbock was one of the

by Ronald Hutton greatest of Victorian scholars, the one who first
applied Darwin’s new concept of human evolution to
In 1800 Avebury was essentially a village with a the study of the ancient European past, and
prehistoric monument somewhat awkwardly introduced a large reading public to the model of a
dispersed through it. In 2000 it was a World Heritage European prehistory severed from Biblical narratives
Site formed around a prehistoric monument, with a and divided progressively into the Palaeolithic,
village somewhat awkwardly tacked onto it: and in the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age. He also
contrast lies the best and the worst of its modern inaugurated a new epoch in the history of Avebury, by
history, and most of the opportunities and problems intervening in 1872 when land containing some of the
that characterise it at the present day. remaining stones was offered for sale as a potential
Scholarly publications on the monument housing development. Lubbock bought some himself,
continued to appear through the 19th century as they to block construction, and thereafter lobbied for the
had through the 18th, but in larger quantity and with passage of the first national legislation to protect
a return to the conflict of opinion which had marked ancient monuments in 1882, which included the
attitudes to it before 1740. Certainly the orthodoxy henge, the surviving part of the West Kennet Avenue,
was still that established by William Stukeley – that the two Longstones and Silbury Hill in its schedule.
monuments like the Avebury complex had been built Lubbock’s affection for the place was signalled
by the Druids – but within this model many different when he was subsequently awarded a peerage, and
permutations were possible. Thus, Thomas Maurice took the title of Baron Avebury, which is still held by
in 1801 thought the Avebury henge to be an his family.
astronomical observatory; William Lisle Bowles in Having secured the safety of the complex, the next
1828 made it a calendar and temple of the Gaulish step to be taken by modern scholarship was to
god Teutates as well; Edward Duke in 1846 found it commence systematic investigation of it. A trial
to be a planetarium and in 1857 J. M. Kemble excavation was made in 1865 to 1867, which merely
pronounced it to be a cemetery. At the same time the confirmed that it was not a cemetery, and a thorough
Druidic interpretation became challenged once more. survey added in 1881 which detected many buried
In 1823 Henry Browne declared that it was a stones. In 1899 the British Association for the
memorial to the events in the Garden of Eden, raised Advancement of Science formed a committee to settle
by Adam himself. Longer-lived and more influential the age of stone circles, and this commissioned a
was a school of thought which arose in the middle of more ambitious programme of exploration at the
the century and returned to the medieval idea that henge. It was entrusted to the curator of the Taunton
megalithic monuments were post-Roman. The first Museum, Harold St George Gray, who had learned
major exponent of this theory was Algernon Herbert the most advanced archaeological techniques of the
in 1849, but the best-known and most prolific was time from their pioneer, General Pitt Rivers. He
James Fergusson, who between 1860 and 1872 applied them well at Avebury, directing a team of
made the Avebury henge into a memorial to the diggers there at periods between 1908 and 1922
British war dead in the struggle against the invading which focused on the ditch and bank which promised
Anglo-Saxons. the best evidence for a date of construction. This was
Meanwhile the villagers continued quietly going arguably to prove the most important single
about their daily lives, which at times occasioned the excavation at the henge thus far, because it
destruction of more of the monument. In 1812 Sir established, once and for all, that the monument
Richard Colt Hoare had the site surveyed for the first belonged to the Neolithic. Gray’s work proceeded
time since Stukeley’s day, and found that a dozen without any discernible disturbance of the village, and
more stones had vanished since then, leaving only 17 indeed provided some benefit to it, although not of a
in place. During the following two decades, tenant kind which he himself desired: he left open one of his
farmers broke up two fallen megaliths and a ditch cuttings for eight years to discover how quickly
landowner directed the removal of three stones of the it filled with earth, and returned to find that local
northern inner circle which obstructed cultivation of people had dumped several tons of domestic rubbish
his property. Between 1841 and 1871 the population in it instead.
of the settlement virtually doubled, so that it pressed After the process of study was well advanced, a
ever harder on the ancient remains. Small wonder parallel scholarly enterprise, that of reconstruction,
that visiting antiquaries began to refer to the village as could commence. In 1911 ‘Adam’, the surviving
a whole with resentment or concern, Joseph Hunter megalith of the Longstones Cove, fell over, and the
calling it a ‘vile hamlet’ in 1829 and Sir John Lubbock Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
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decided to re-erect it, and followed this by putting up complex itself, hiring one of the finest archaeologists
a stone in the West Kennet Avenue which had of the rising generation, Stuart Piggott. Piggott
toppled in 1899. Such work was continued on a grand suggested an excavation of the section of the West
scale in the 1930s, and at the behest of a personality Kennet Avenue nearest to the henge, but it seems to
who arguably ranks with Stukeley as one of the two have been Keiller himself who now decided to buy the
most colourful and influential yet associated with the chunk of avenue outright, and with it the whole
henge: Alexander Keiller. He was born rich, the heir henge, and to re-erect fallen stones and repair and set
to a fortune made in the manufacture of Dundee up broken stones, in order to restore as much of the
marmalade, and equipped with enormous energy, complex as was possible. The section of avenue was
confidence, curiosity, aggression and libido. His the first part of the complex to be given this
enthusiasms embraced some of the traditional treatment, in 1934–5, with dramatic effect: only three
pastimes of the wealthy, such as grouse-shooting, but of its megaliths were still standing, but Keiller put up
more that were distinctively a creation of the 20th nine more that had fallen and 13 which had been
century, including fast cars and skiing. Fortunately, buried, and set concrete markers on the sites of those
the latter category also included archaeology, in completely lost, to give a sense of the whole
which he displayed his general love of novelty and monument. For the rest of the decade he applied the
innovation. He was first attracted to it in 1922 same treatment to the henge, restoring all that could
by reading in a newspaper of O. G. S. Crawford’s be located of the megaliths of the outer circle, for
pioneering work in the use of aerial photography to more than half of its circuit, and the southern inner
identify ancient sites, and offered to sponsor this. circle. Some startling incidental discoveries were
Two years later, Crawford drew his attention to a made, such as the body of the ‘barber-surgeon’, and
scheme to erect a radio mast on Windmill Hill, where the complex was turned back into a much more
signs of extensive prehistoric occupation had been spectacular monument. He managed to do this,
noted. Keiller purchased some of the land (although moreover, without alienating the villagers. He was a
by the time he did so the radio mast scheme had been good landlord, providing employment, buying drinks
abandoned) and this allowed him to pay for a major regularly and playing a full part in the social world of
excavation, which revealed a Neolithic causewayed the community. He demolished a few modern
enclosure and such a rich assemblage of bones and buildings as part of his restoration of the prehistoric
artefacts that it became regarded as the definitive site site, but the only one not already derelict at the time
for the main Early Neolithic culture of southern was a garage which he rebuilt handsomely outside the
Britain, throughout the mid-20th century. Keiller was earthwork. He served both scholarship and the public
personally responsible for introducing practices of by establishing a museum to house the finds from his
sectioning of ground and general retention of finds excavations, and, though his perfectionism prevented
which were in advance of even most reputable him from publishing the results of those, they were
contemporary archaeologists. well recorded enough to be brought into print by
He also had to reckon with two problems in the Isobel Smith in 1965.
process. The first was the immediate suspicion and The one, fatal, flaw in his plan was that even he
hostility of the county’s existing experts in prehistory, could not afford it. In 1941 his fortune began to
assembled in the Wiltshire Archaeological and collapse, after he had spent the equivalent of
Natural History Society, and above all Maud and £2,500,000 in current money on reconstructing the
Benjamin Cunnington, who had earlier re-erected the henge. He gave up the grand design with almost half
fallen stones described above. Crawford brokered a of it incomplete, and with it any further interest in
deal whereby they allowed the Windmill Hill Avebury. In 1943 he sold all his land there to the
excavation if Gray were brought back to supervise it. National Trust for its agricultural value alone, bearing
In 1927 Gray withdrew, or was pushed out, and permanently himself the full cost of all his restoration
Keiller took over directly, only to hit his second work. The Trust thus found itself in charge of what he
problem, a car crash in 1929 which left him incapable had turned back into one of the world’s most
of the work. Meanwhile his antipathy towards the impressive prehistoric structures, just at the moment
Cunningtons had remained as powerful, and as fully at which the increase in private motor transport
reciprocated, as before, and provoked Maud to allowed it to become a major tourist attraction. In an
compete with him by locating and excavating the site important sense, Keiller had transformed the henge
of the Sanctuary, an undoubted service to from being the concern of people with a special
scholarship, although her methods were well below interest in prehistory to one of the iconic sites of
Keiller’s standards. Keiller himself responded to both ancient Britain. It suddenly became prominent in
setbacks by turning his attention to the Avebury every textbook on the subject, and the National Trust
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Plate 47 The reconstructed West Kennet Long Barrow (© Erica Gittins)

and the government’s Ministry of Works set about, in the century – but it made a vanished monument seem
parallel, developing it further for this changed role. imposing and meaningful. The fourth satellite
Some of this process was destructive: the Trust went monument was to become the most exciting for many
much further during its first 20 years of ownership visitors. It was created after 1955–6, when Stuart
than Keiller had done, in demolishing parts of the Piggott, by now probably the leading British expert on
village and relocating the inhabitants in order to open the Neolithic, supervised the thorough re-excavation
up spaces around the megaliths. It removed several of one of the largest long barrows still visible in the
buildings in good repair and some of historic value, district, that above West Kennett. It proved to be a
such as a row of 18th-century cottages, transplanting transepted gallery grave, the most elaborate and
the inhabitants to a new housing development at impressive kind of stone-chambered barrow, with
Avebury Trusloe. The most constructive aspect of the chambers of unusual size even for the kind. After the
work consisted of developing a selection of sites dig was complete, the Ministry restored them
around the henge to make up a package with it which carefully, with deft additions of concrete, gravel and
could be offered to visitors as the best representative Perspex (Pl. 47), as a tourist attraction. The alteration
sample of Neolithic ceremonial structures in England. in the site’s reputation was striking: before the mid-
This was carried out by the Ministry, and a 1950s it does not feature in the guides to English
portfolio of four satellite attractions resulted, each prehistoric monuments, while thereafter it was the
taken directly into Government care and conserved most famous, and frequently visited, long barrow of
by it, with footpaths, signposts and interpretative all. Although a thoroughly exceptional specimen of a
panels set up for tourists. Windmill Hill and Silbury rare variety of this class of structure, it has come to be
Hill were two of these, and a third was the Sanctuary, the type one for very many people. When it had taken
where nothing had survived above ground since the its place on the visitor trail, the latter was essentially
1720s but concrete blocks were installed to mark both complete, and all that was needed to activate it was a
the positions of the stone circles and of the timber comprehensive, learned and accessibly-written official
posts which preceded them. The result, based on guide book, which was duly provided in 1959 by
Maud Cunnington’s interpretation, was to give a Richard Atkinson (1959), who stood second only to
deceptive impression of four coherent stages of Piggott as an expert in the Neolithic of England.
construction including two roofed buildings – The odd one out in the assemblage of ‘honey-pot’
corrected by Mike Pitts’s re-excavation at the end of monuments was Silbury, which had not undergone
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any 20th-century excavation and whose purpose

remained a complete enigma. In 1969 Atkinson
therefore took it on, with ample funding accompanied
by maximum media exposure, resulting in a two-year
programme to bore a tunnel laterally through to the
core, reported stage by stage on national television.
The result was an anticlimax, and perhaps a disaster.
No spectacular discoveries were made to satisfy the
viewing public, and the mound remained almost as
much an enigma as before. It was confirmed that no
remains of a burial or of chambers existed in the
centre, but that was also the conclusion drawn by
antiquaries who had dug a shaft in 1776 and a tunnel
in 1849. For a time it was believed that Atkinson’s
‘Silbury Dig’ had still yielded important information,
but it never received proper publication and was
superseded by a much more effective if less publicity-
conscious excavation in the 2000s. Its most important
and least expected result was, perhaps, to inspire a
lecturer in art history, Michael Dames, to offer his
own, fluent and confident, interpretation of the
hill. In 1976 he suggested that it represented the body
of a great mother goddess, the empowering spirit of
the earth, who had been the paramount deity of
the European Neolithic (Dames 1976). The concept
of such a deity had been orthodoxy among
archaeologists themselves in the 1950s, having grown
up slowly during the century before then. Ironically, it
had been abandoned by them over the 10 years before
Dames published, for lack of any unequivocal Plate 48 Offerings in the rag tree at Swallowhead
supporting evidence, but he was apparently unaware Spring (© Erica Gittins)
of this, and proceeded to link the cult of this
presumed being with both Silbury and a nearby All were associated with radical counter-cultures, and
spring, at Swallowhead, which had hitherto not all drew on that yearning for a reconnection with the
featured as significant in accounts of local prehistory. natural world and with former inhabitants of one’s
The success of his book inspired him to publish land which was one result of the dislocation produced
another, in 1977, which combined the Avebury henge by industrialisation and urbanisation in the Western
with Silbury, the West Kennet long barrow and the world. Dames had provided these groups with a
Sanctuary as the focal points of a cycle of festivals, festive cycle which spoke to those needs and could be
based on the opening of the seasons, which united all celebrated in the monuments so helpfully restored
four monuments in one religious system. and opened to the public since 1930. In particular, his
What Dames had done, of course, was to impose interpretation of Silbury as a representation of a great
an imagined ancient festive system on sites picked out goddess made a natural appeal to the Goddess
by the Ministry of Works in the mid-20th century as movement, a religious wing of American feminism
its sample for tourist consumption. Archaeologically, which arrived in Britain in the 1970s. He turned the
his cycle did not work, because it put together hill into a site for its rituals, and made the
monuments from different millennia, such as the Swallowhead Spring another (Pl. 48). Henceforth,
henge and the long barrow, and ignored the western management of the Avebury complex had to reckon
parts of the complex, such as the Longstones. His with a fourth interest group, to join the villagers who
interpretation of Silbury, on the other hand, remains had been there for over a millennium, the scholars
feasible, but only as one among many others. Such who had arrived in the 17th century and the tourists
considerations are largely beside the point of his true who had begun to appear in numbers during the mid-
significance, which was to open up Avebury as a focus 20th century: practitioners of forms of newly-evolved
for modern spirituality, and especially that associated religion who regarded prehistoric remains as their
with Paganism, the earth mysteries movement and sacred sites.
the Goddess movement, three cultural phenomena Archaeological investigation remained vibrant and
which appeared in Britain between 1950 and 1980. very productive: indeed, excavations were conducted
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Plate 49 The Henge Shop, Avebury (© Erica Gittins)

in or around Avebury in every decade of the 20th designated a World Heritage Site by the United
century except the 1940s, and continued into the 21st Nations, coupled with Stonehenge and its environs
century. Since 1980, four stand out as especially (see Introduction).
noteworthy, the first being the investigation of None of these important accretions of knowledge,
outlying sites led by Alasdair Whittle in the years however, resulted in any addition to the sites offered
around 1990, the greatest discovery of which was the to visitors. They were duly incorporated into the
pair of palisaded Late Neolithic enclosures at West latest guidebook to the henge, issued by the National
Kennett, used for assemblies which included feasting. Trust in 2008, and into the display of information on
This added a major, and hitherto unsuspected, the Avebury monuments established in the 2000s in
component to the complex. The second was Mike the Great Barn near the museum. In sharp contrast to
Pitt’s re-examination of The Sanctuary in the 1990s, the policy of the mid-20th century, however, no
which revealed that the stone circles had been attempt was made to add the sites investigated to the
preceded not by a sequence of timber buildings but tourist landscape. The West Kennet palisade
by a succession of pits and posts, which were renewed enclosures remain as invisible as they were before
at intervals ad hoc. The Longstones Project of the late their discovery, with no concrete markers and
1990s and early 2000s, which included Joshua signboards to indicate their position. The Longstones
Pollard and Mark Gillings, proved the existence of the Project found a number of buried megaliths along the
Beckhampton Avenue and Cove and added to line of the Beckhampton Avenue, but there is neither
knowledge of the West Kennet Avenue and Avebury the funding nor the willpower available to re-erect
Cove. Finally, the sudden collapse of the 18th- them or any of those still lying beneath the ground
century shaft through Silbury Hill, on the 29 May, within the henge. An early 21st-century system of
2000, enforced repairs which allowed a more interpretation is therefore resting rather uneasily upon
thorough examination of the mound led by Jim Leary a mid-20th-century set of conserved monuments.
and David Field. This established the long sequence Indeed, access to those has diminished rather than
of construction, involving successive changes of plan, increased. Silbury was climbed by local people,
which eventually resulted in its permanent form. In sometimes on annual festive occasions, for centuries,
1986, of course, the set of protected and conserved and during the middle of the 20th century it was still
monuments and their landscape at Avebury was accessible to visitors. The swelling numbers of those,
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however, meant that from the 1970s it was barred off

with ever greater care, and treated as an attraction to
be viewed from a distance. The growing press of
people in the West Kennet long barrow produced
sporadic proposals to close it, happily not
implemented to date; while sections of the henge
bank at Avebury were showing serious signs of
erosion by the 1990s, and needing closure to allow
regeneration of soil. In that decade the henge had
begun to attract more than half a million visitors a
year, a number which represented the absolute
maximum that it could sustain without serious levels
of damage. A crisis was averted by the simple and
brutal tactics of making the parking of visitors’
vehicles both more restricted and more expensive; but
the problem has not wholly gone away.
The strain upon the monuments was
accompanied, of course, by a growing one upon the
village, which was a compound of three different, but
converging, developments. The first was the obvious
drawback of living in a growing major tourist
attraction: of having strangers present in one’s
neighbourhood throughout the year and crowding it
during the holiday season. This popularity did not
rescue it from the second development, the general Plate 50 Contemporary activity in and around West
decline of facilities which beset rural England in the Kennet Long Barrow (© Erica Gittins)
late 20th century, as local employment dwindled and
commuting became a norm for residents. Businesses associated with arcane forces. At the time at which
which could cash in on the tourist boom did Michael Dames was starting to reactivate it as a place
well, such as the pub, and the café which opened for pagan worship, in 1976, Harlech Television
opposite the museum in 1984. So did shops selling screened a series entitled The Children of the Stones, set
commodities related to the prehistoric heritage in a fictional village which was Avebury in all but
(Pl. 49). Those which provided the necessities of life, name and investing its prehistoric remains with occult
however, almost all closed down, along with the social forces, including the earth energies so dear to the
and sports clubs and the school. The National Trust earth mysteries movement. This attracted a large
is now the main employer. These losses did not viewing public, and certainly enhanced the henge’s
prevent the third pressure on the community, of a reputation as a place on the tourist trail. During the
steep rise in property values as wealthy outsiders, 1970s and 1980s, counter-cultural religious activity
attracted by the prospect of living within a spectacular tended to focus on Silbury, the Swallowhead Spring
ancient landscape, increasingly bought up the houses. and the West Kennet long barrow (Pl. 50), following
For a southern English village at the present time, Dames’s books, but in the 1990s it entered the henge
Avebury remains unusually prosperous, and itself. This was largely because of the banning, in
campaigns of local opposition have seen off some of 1985, of the midsummer rites at Stonehenge, which
the worst threats of tourist development, such as a modern Druids had held for most of the 20th century
grand hotel complex and a theme park. Even so, the and which had been accompanied by a pop festival
inhabitants prepared to chat with a stranger have since 1974. In 1993 one of the most colourful and
tended to express a sense of unease and grievance. visionary characters among Druid chiefs, Tim
If those expressions are rooted in general social Sebastion, began to hold regular ceremonies within
and economic changes, their largest single focus at the the Avebury circle, which settled thereafter into eight
end of the 2000s was often on the specific problems gatherings a year, at the festivals observed by modern
created by forms of avant-garde spirituality. It should Pagans. Many different Druid orders engaged in
be stressed that practitioners of these represent only these, and hundreds of people attended them from a
an extreme distillation of a very widespread popular spectrum of Pagan traditions: in effect, they provided
tendency to regard the complex of monuments as a full range of religious facilities, within a Pagan
places of mystery (which is justified in that we still milieu, including seasonal rites, weddings and child-
have no access to the belief system which inspired namings. Some of the celebrants camped locally, and
their construction or the rites enacted there), possibly not all of these treated the environment and
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monuments with care, resulting in moments of managed since its establishment. Responsibilities are
tension with the guardians of both. complex: the henge, the West Kennet Avenue,
These eased in the later 1990s, as the huge groups Windmill Hill, Silbury Hill, The Sanctuary and West
who had joined together in the eight annual Kennet long barrow are in State guardianship and
assemblies divided into different factions celebrating therefore under the control of English Heritage, along
in parallel, and as the small element of bad behaviour with the Alexander Keiller Museum (Stables
more or less disappeared. None the less, some building) and most of the collections. Local
villagers remain unhappy with the element of noise Management Agreements and a Local Management
and intrusion at the Pagan festivals. This problem was and Loan Agreement are in place between English
enhanced once more in the new century, ironically as Heritage and the National Trust for all of the above
a result of the reopening of Stonehenge for except Silbury Hill, which is directly managed by
midsummer festivity and ritual. The very large English Heritage. The ownership of these
numbers which subsequently celebrated there guardianship monuments is yet more complicated –
discouraged some people from further attendance, some are owned by the National Trust, some by the
and they began to observe the night and dawn of the State and some by private owners. Wiltshire Council
summer solstice in the quieter, larger and less heavily also has a role to play, not least since the main road
policed setting of the Avebury henge itself. By 2010 between Swindon and Devizes still twists through the
several hundred people were doing so in a carnival centre of the henge, and is the Council’s
atmosphere of drumming, dancing, street theatre, responsibility. It can therefore be considered a
bullroarers and other boisterous entertainments. The considerable achievement that all have thus far
police were attempting to control the numbers managed to work together, and in the process to
attending by preventing car-parking in the area on balance the wishes and needs of villagers,
that evening, and many villagers were arranging to archaeologists, tourists and Pagans in such a way as to
stay elsewhere in order to get any sleep. Like the issue accommodate all. Stonehenge is, intrinsically, a
of overall visitor numbers, that of use of the monument, but Avebury is a community, and its
monuments by religious groups teeters on the brink of modern history is one of successful accommodation
the unsupportable. of an ever growing complexity and diversity in the
In view of all this, it needs to be emphasised how components, permanent and transitory, which
harmoniously and effectively the WHS has been comprise it.
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Appendix 1:
Documentary Sources

Examples of Avebury-relevant online and other accessible sources. These are only examples and do not represent
a comprehensive or definitive list.

Note: facsimiles whether printed or online may be imperfect reproductions, from unreadable and missing
pages to split illustrations and marks.

Archive collections

Alexander Keiller Museum

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/GB-1659-MS.Collections.htm

Ashmolean Museum
http://www.ashmolean.org/collections/

Bath Record Office

http://www.batharchives.co.uk/

Bodleian Library
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/eresources

Bowood
http://www.bowood-house.co.uk/research.html

British Library
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/catblhold/all/allcat.html

British Library (Newspaper Catalogues)

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/blnewspapers/newscat/newscat.html

British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/libraries_and_archives.aspx

Churchill College Cambridge

http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/

Dickens Museum
http://www.dickensmuseum.com/resources/researchers.html

Dorset Record Office

http://www.dorsetforyou.com/dorsethistorycentre/collections

English Heritage
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/archives-and-collections/nmr/archives/
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Hampshire Record Office

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives

Longleat
http://www.longleat.co.uk/about/library-and-archives

National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/catalogues-and-online-records.htm

Natural History Museum

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/library/archives/index.html

Petrie Museum
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/museums/petrie/collections

Pitt Rivers Museum

http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/manuscripts.html

Royal Photographic Society

http://www.rps.org/group/Archaeology-and-Heritage

Sir John Soane’s Mueum

http://www.soane.org/collections

Society of Antiquaries of London

http://www.sal.org.uk/library/

Underhill Archive
http://web.arch.ox.ac.uk/archives/underhill/viewarchive.php?albumID=1

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/searches/locresult_details.asp?LR=190

Wiltshire Museum, Devizes

Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (WAHNS)
http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/library/
http://www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk/collections/

ARCHON Directory

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/searches/locresult.asp?LR=1659

Avebury Chapel

Restoration
http://www.minervaconservation.com/projects/avebury.html

Visitor’s Book entry selection

http://www.aveburychapel.co.uk/Visitor%20Book%20Page%201.htm
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Avebury Online Parish Clerk Records

Avebury Census Returns 1861

http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Avebury%20-%20Census%201861.pdf

Avebury Poll of Freeholders 1772

http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Avebury%20-%20Poll%20of%20Freeholders%201772.pdf

Avebury St James Biographical Memorial Roll of Honour 1914-18 & 1939-45

http://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Avebury%20-%20Roll%20of%20Honour%20-%20Avebury.pdf

Avebury Rights of Way

http://www.wiltshirelaf.org.uk/definitive-avebury.htm

http://www.wiltshirelaf.org.uk/definitive-all-cannings.htm

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityandliving/rightsofway/publicrightsofwaymapping.htm

Avebury map

Local plan 2011

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/kennet_local_plan_2011_-_avebury.pdf

Avebury Teacher’s Kit

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/avebury-teachers-kit/

Domesday Book Online

http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/wiltshire.html

English Heritage Minutes

English Heritage The Conservation of Silbury Hill, Agenda Item 5, Minutes of the Heritage Advisory Committee
24 September 2003
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/imported-docs/a-e/ehacsilburyhillsep03.pdf

English Heritage [Open] Minutes of the Heritage Advisory Committee 24 February 2005
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/imported-docs/k-o/ehacminutesfeb2005.pdf

GENUKI

Avebury
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/Avebury/index.html

Church Records and Indexes

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/church.html#WSRO

National Gazetteer 1868 (extract)

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/Avebury/Gaz1868.html
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Manuscripts

Petition Prior of Avebury 1356-1357 Catalogue reference SC /8/195/9706

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?queryType=1&resultcount=1
&Edoc_Id=7716518

Print on demand

Stukeley, William, Abury, a Temple of the British Druids, with Some Others, Described
(London, second edition, 1743)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Described-Second-William-Stukeley/dp/117096494X/ref=sr_1_1?s=
books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313516438&sr=1-1

Sound recordings

Dave Prentice, Field recordings from summer solstice celebrations atop Silbury Hill and in Avebury henge, 1999
http://www.archive.org/details/Avebury_99

Website of Duncan and Mandy Ball

Memorials
http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_AveburyJ_mem.htm#0266

Name search
http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/church_names/ph_AveburyVill_snames.htm

Wiltshire Family History Society

Parish transcripts and other publications:

http://www.wiltshirefhs.co.uk/WFHSPublications.pdf

Wiltshire Council

Avebury Population Figures

http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcensus.php?id=15

Biography of Charles Pearce of Avebury, composer of ‘Sweet William’ (1923)

http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getfolkbio.php?collect_from=Pearce,%20Charles

Wills, inventories, depositions, oaths

http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/wills_search.php?community_in=Avebury
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Writings and published works

Anon. 1783 A Description of Stonehenge, Abiry etc. in Wiltshire: with an account of the learning and discipline of
the druids; to which is added, an account of antiquities on Salisbury Plain (Second edition). Salisbury: B.C.
Collins and London: S. Crowder
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PIEOAAAAQAAJ&dq=abiry&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false

Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1851 Memoirs illustrative of the history and antiquities of
Wiltshire and the City of Salisbury Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland, held at Salisbury July 1949. London: George Bell
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j_UHAAAAQAAJ&dq=Memoirs%20illustrative%20of%20the%20hist
ory%20and%20antiquities%20of%20Wiltshire%20and%20the%20City%20of%20Salisbury&pg=PP7#v=
onepage&q&f=false

Arts and Humanities Research Council 2010 Ancient Monuments, New Discoveries: archaeological
research at Avebury
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/What-We-Do/Build-the-evidence-base/Impact-examples/Documents/Archaeology-
at-Avebury.pdf

Bowles, Revd W L 1828 Hermes Britannicus: a dissertation on the Celtic deity Teutates, the Mercurius of
Caesar, in further proof and corroboration of the origin and designation of the great temple at Abury in Wiltshire.
London: J.B. Nichols
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=duWIF4qCYa8C&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Bowles, Revd W L 1828 The Parochial History of Bremhill, in the County of Wilts: containing a particular
account, from authentic and unpublished documents, of the Cistercian abbey of Stanley in that parish; with
observations and reflections on the origin and establishment of parochial clergy, and other circumstances of general
parochial interest, including illustrations of the origin and designation of the stupendous monuments of antiquity in
the neighbourhood, Avebury, Silbury, and Wansdike. London: John Murray
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_03IAAAAMAAJ&dq=Bowles%20The%20Parochial%20History%20o
f%20Bremhill&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Britton, J 1825 The Beauties of Wiltshire, Displayed in Statistical, Historical, and Descriptive Sketches,
Interspersed with Anecdotes of the Arts Vol. III. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tnZKAAAAYAAJ&dq=abiry&pg=PA269#v=onepage&q=abiry&f=false

Britton, J 1845 Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., embracing his auto-biographical sketches, a brief view of his
personal and literary merits, and an account of his works; with extracts from his correspondence, anecdotes of some
of his contemporaries, and of the times in which he lived. London, J B Nichols
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Page numbers in italics denote illustrations. car park 12, 72, 107, 110
churches see St James’s church; United
A4 74, 96, 107, 124, 127 Reformed Chapel
A303 4 henge see Avebury henge
A344 4 place-name 112
A361 127 school 141
A4361 124 school site
academic data portals 70 dating evidence 49, 57, 113
Adam’s Grave 12 description and discussion 91, 111–12, 114, 117
aerial archaeology 15–20, 17, 18, 20 environmental evidence 26
Alexander Keiller Museum 61, 63–4, 66, 142 geophysical survey 12
Alfred of Marlborough 118 settlement
All Cannings 104, 109 Anglo-Saxon–medieval 110–19, 111
All Cannings Cross 26, 37, 57, 102 medieval–post-medieval 119, 121–3
All Cannings Down 99, 102, 106 see also built heritage
Allen, Mike 25, 75 World Heritage Site 2, 4
Allington Down, north-east of 102 see also individual buildings/locations by name
Alton 104, 106 Avebury Archaeological and Historical Research
Amesbury Archer 59, 59 Group 1, 5
Amesbury Down 80 Avebury barrow G21 12
animal bone Avebury barrow G24 12
analysis 25, 60 Avebury barrow G25 12
Late Glacial–Mesolithic 30 Avebury barrow G25a 12
Early Neolithic 30–1 Avebury barrow G29a 12
Middle–Late Neolithic 33 Avebury barrow G55
Beaker/Early Bronze Age 35 economic evidence 35
Middle–Late Bronze Age 37 environmental evidence 26, 35, 36, 38
Late Bronze/Early Iron Age–Late Iron Age 37–8 human bone 85
Romano-British 38–9 pottery and lithics 83, 84
Saxon–medieval 39 Avebury Down 12, 23, 81, 99, 123
resource assessment Avebury henge
Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 84, 85, 86, 87, archaeoastronomy 98
89, 93, 94, 95 dating evidence 41–4, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48–9, 56, 57
Iron Age 102, 103 designation 74
post-medieval 123 environmental evidence 26, 30, 32
archaeoastronomy 98 excavation archives 63
Archaeological Research Agenda for the Avebury World geophysical survey 12, 14
Heritage Site 1, 4–5, 6, 84, 119 period-based assessment
Archaeology Data Service 70 Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 83, 84, 87, 88–91,
Arthur, King 73–4 88, 90
Ashmolean Museum 62, 66 Iron Age 103
Atkinson, Richard 75, 96, 138–9 Romano-British 106
Aubrey, John 22, 66, 72, 94 post-Roman–Anglo-Saxon 110
Avebury (village) Mid–late Saxon–medieval 110–11, 112–13,
built heritage 114, 118
character 128–33, 131, 132 post-medieval 123, 126
designated resource 127, 127, 128, 128, 129 modern 136, 137, 141–2
period summaries 133–5, 134, 140 see also The Cove; Northern Inner Circle;
study to date 127 Outer Circle; Southern Inner Circle
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Avebury Manor environmental evidence 26, 30, 32

built heritage 127, 131, 132, 133 Beckhampton/Longstones long barrow 85
geophysical survey 12, 14 Bell’s Farm 102
resource assessment 121–2, 122 Berwick Bassett Old Farmhouse 57
Avebury sewer trench 83 Between the Monuments Project 3, 23, 64
Avebury and Stonehenge Archaeological and Beversbrook 116
Historical Research Group 5, 6, 7, 10 biomolecular analyses 58–61, 58, 59
Avebury Trusloe Birmingham University 4, 71
aerial survey 16 Bishops Cannings 37, 104, 106
built heritage Bishops Cannings Down 26, 49, 57, 98, 100
character 130, 131, 132, 133 Bodleian Library 66
designated resource 127, 128, 129 Bournemouth University 71
period summaries 133, 134, 135, 135 Bourton 109
cable trenching 84 Bowles, William Lisle 136
environmental archaeology 26 Bowood House 66
geophysical survey 12 brewery 122, 135
period-based assessment brewing 39
Romano-British 104 bridge 135
Anglo-Saxon–medieval 113, 114, 115 Bristol University 3
post-medieval 121 British Association 74, 90
Avebury Trusloe Manor 127, 128, 132, 133 British Falconers’ Club 65
Avebury World Heritage Site Management Plan 1 British Library 66
Avebury World Heritage Site Mapping Project British Museum 62, 66
18–19, 20 Britton, J. 66
Avon, Rivers 80 Brooke, J. W. 22
axes, Bronze Age 97, 97, 99–100 Broomsgrove Farm 106
Browne, Henry 89, 136
Bannings Farmhouse 127, 135 Browne, W. 22
barber-surgeon burial 114, 117, 118, 119, 137 Brown’s Farm, villa 104, 106
Barbury Castle 74, 103 built heritage
Barrett, John 76 character of
Bath Record Office 66 boundary features 132, 132
beads, Anglo-Saxon 107, 108, 110 Christian foundations 131, 132
Beaker People Project 4, 59–60, 61, 85 gentry-owned houses 131
Beckhampton milestones 132–3
aerial archaeology 16 military 133
built heritage 127, 131 settlement characterisation 128
settlement 121 street furniture 133, 133
stables and gallops 125 vernacular buildings 129–31, 130
strip-lynchets 116 designated resource 127–8, 127, 128, 129
Beckhampton Avenue period summaries 133–5, 134, 135
aerial archaeology 16 study to date 127
dating 47, 49 Bupton 116
geophysical survey 3, 12, 14 Burderop Down 37, 100
historic interpretation 73, 74 Burderop Down barrow 26, 35, 36
period-based assessment burh 111, 112–13, 117, 118
Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 87, 91, 92–3 Burl, A. 98
Anglo-Saxon–medieval 114, 116, 117, 118–19 Butler, George 135
post-medieval 123, 125–6 Butler’s Field
modern 140 dating evidence 40, 50, 56, 57, 111
Beckhampton barrow 4, 26, 35, 39 economic evidence 39
Beckhampton barrow cemetery 12 environmental evidence 26, 38
Beckhampton House 135 test trenching 83, 114
Beckhampton Penning barrow 85, 94, 97 buttons, jet 97
Beckhampton Road long barrow
dating 42, 45, 46, 49, 56 Calne, place-name 110
description 85 Cambridge University 14, 17, 86
economic evidence 31
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Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Delling enclosure 123

Anthropology 62 Delling valley 13
Cardiff University 14, 23, 75 dendrochronology 40, 57, 58
cauldron, Anglo-Saxon 108 deserted/shrunken settlements 116, 119, 121
chambered monuments 85–6 Devereux, Paul 76
Cherhill Devil’s Den 74
cursus monument 87 Devizes
dating evidence 40–1, 42, 45, 46, 50 Brickley Lane 26, 37, 38
environmental evidence 25, 26, 30, 32 castle 50, 57
settlement 104, 106, 110 museum see Wiltshire Museum
Cherhill Down 16, 80, 104, 109 New Park Street 27
Childe, V. Gordon 64, 75 St John’s Alley 57
Chippenham College Practical Archaeology Group 23 Wayside Farm 29, 39
chisel/axe, Bronze Age 97 dew ponds 123
Clark, J. G. D. 75 diet see health and diet
Clatford stone circle 88, 94 Dimbleby, Geoffrey 25
clay pipes 125 Dixon, S. B. 78
Clay-with-flints deposits 77 DNA analysis 58, 59, 61
Cleal, R. M. J. 97 documentary sources 64–7, 65, 67, 143–50
coins Domesday Survey 65, 113, 115, 118, 145
Iron Age 103 Dorset Record Office 66
Roman 106, 107, 109 dovecotes 122, 127, 127, 133
medieval 114, 117, 119 Down Barn Cottage 127
post-medieval 125 Down Farm 26
colluvium 39, 83 Drax, Edward 96
Colt Hoare, Sir Richard 66, 73, 101, 120, 136 Draycot 104
Column Ride 106 droveways 124
Compton Bassett 13, 57, 110, 116 Druidry 73, 136, 141
Compton Bassett Area Research Project 113 Duke, Edward 136
Conservation Areas 128 Dunch family 122
The Cove Durrington Down round barrow 35
dating evidence 43, 44, 49, 56, 58 Durrington Walls 35, 59, 83, 99
geophysical survey 12
period-based assessment Early Bronze Age Grave Goods Project 4
Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 88, 89, 91, 98 earth mysteries movement 139
post-medieval 122–3, 126 East Chisenbury 26, 37–8
modern 140 East Kennett
Cramp, Rosemary 113 built heritage 131
Crawford, O. G. S. 16–17, 22, 64, 137 enclosures 101, 104
CultureGrid 62 environmental evidence 27, 39
Cunetio 104, 106, 107 settlement 106, 107, 110, 121
Cunnington family 66 East Kennett long barrow 22, 84, 85, 86, 107, 108
Benjamin 137 Easton Down long barrow
Henry 103 dating 42, 45, 50
Maud 74, 91, 92–3, 93, 137 description 85
R. H. 93 environmental evidence 27, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36
W. A. 78 interpretation 75
William 73, 78, 89 survey 12
cursus monument 87 economic evidence
Early Neolithic 30–1
Dames, Michael 139, 141 Middle–Late Neolithic 33–4
Davies, Paul 25 Beaker/Early Bronze Age 35
Davis, J. P. 73 Middle–Late Bronze Age 37
Dean Bottom Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age–Late
dating 50 Iron Age 37–8
environmental/economic evidence 26, 35, 36, 37 Romano-British 38–9
period-based assessment 98, 100 Anglo-Saxon–medieval 39
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enclosure (parliamentary) 123 gatherings 87, 88–9, 95, 100, 140

English Heritage geographic information systems 68–71
aerial archaeology 16, 17, 18, 20, 121 geophysical survey 8, 11–15
funding 5, 6 George, A. 23, 24
GIS 69, 70 Gillings, Mark 71, 140
management responsibilities 142 Goddess movement 139
research by 3, 22, 83, 91, 92, 106, 122 Goodrick, Glyn 71
environmental archaeology 25, 25, 26–9, 39 Gopher Wood, east of 104
Late Glacial–Mesolithic 25–30 gouges, bone 102
Early Neolithic 30–1, 31 Gray, Harold St G. 74, 89, 90, 110–11, 136, 137
Middle–Late Neolithic 31–4 Grinsell, L. 97, 102
Beaker/Early Bronze Age 34–5 Gunter, Jim 92, 94
Middle–Late Bronze Age 36–7, 36
Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age–Late Hackpen 12, 23–4
Iron Age 37–8 Hackpen Hill 23, 56, 78, 83, 123
Romano-British 38–9, 38 Ham Hill 38
Anglo-Saxon–medieval 39 Hampshire Record Office 66
environmental assessment handaxes 78
Lower–Middle Palaeolithic 77 hanging bowls, Anglo-Saxon 108, 109
Late Glacial–Early Post-Glacial 80 Harestone Down 99, 100
Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 81, 83 Headlands Enclosure 13, 14, 101, 102
Europeana 62 health and diet 84–5
Evans, John 25, 75, 83, 111 Heddington 109–10
Hemp Knoll 83
Falkner’s Circle Hemp Knoll round barrow
dating 47, 51, 57, 58 assemblage 84
period-based assessment 87, 94, 103, 123–4 dating evidence 42, 45, 47, 51, 56
survey 13, 14 environmental/economic evidence 27, 31, 34, 35, 36
feasting 33, 87, 95, 140 human bone 60
Feeding Stonehenge Project 59, 61 Hengistbury Head 80
Fergusson, James 73–4, 136 Herbert, Algernon 136
Field, David 140 Hickley, Richard 135
field systems hillforts 103
prehistoric–Romano-British 36, 36, 37, 98–9, Historic England 7, 101
102, 103 historic interpretations 72–6, 73, 74
medieval 116, 118 hoards 99–100
post-medieval 123 Holford, Sir Richard 122
fish bones 38–9 Holgate, R. 23
flints Honeystreet 104, 106
Palaeolithic 77, 78, 79 Horslip long barrow
Mesolithic 79, 80 dating evidence 45, 46, 51, 56
Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 81, 83, 84, 90, 93, environmental/economic evidence 27, 30, 31, 33
94, 95, 95, 97 excavation 85
see also lithic scatters geophysical survey 12
Folly Hill barrow group 87, 97 pottery 84
Forest Hill 22, 104 Horton 116
Fox Covert barrow cemetery 97 Horton Down 123
Free, Edward 124 Huish Hill 101, 104
Froom, F. R. 78 human bone
Fyfield Down analyses 58–60, 61
brooch 103 Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 94
environmental evidence 27 Hunter, Joseph 89, 136
field systems 36, 36, 103 Hunterian Museum 63
geophysical survey 13
settlements 102, 104 insect remains 33
Fyfod Project 120, 121 isotopic analysis 58–60, 58, 61
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John the spinner 119 excavations 32

John de la Stone 118 geophysical survey 12, 14
Jope, Martyn 110 period-based assessment 84, 87, 91, 94
Longstones Project 3, 14, 64, 73, 91, 92, 94, 140
Keiller, Alexander loomweights 102, 107
aerial archaeology 16 Lubbock, Sir John 74, 121, 136
biographical details 137 Lukis, W. C. 89
collections relating to 64 Lurkeley Hill 101
demolitions by 135
fieldwork malthouse 135
archives 63, 66 malting 39
Avebury henge 74–5, 89, 90, 137 management agreements 142
West Kennet Avenue 73, 74, 91–2, 137 management plans 1, 6
Windmill Hill 87, 137 Manor Barn (Great Barn)
Keiller, Gabrielle 63, 64 collections 63
Kemble, J. M. 136 dating evidence 57, 58
Kendall, H. G. O. 22–3, 64, 78, 86 excavation 91
Kennet, River 80, 86, 96 resource assessment 122, 126, 127, 134, 140
Kennet Valley Foul Sewer 14, 114 Manor Farm House 134
King, Revd Bryan 73 manorial records 66, 67
King, Denis Grant 64 mansio/mutatio 107
Knap Hill Manton Copse 100
enclosure 86 Manton Down 36
dating evidence 40, 41, 42, 45, 46, 52 Manton Down long barrow 27
environmental evidence 27, 30, 32 maps 66, 67
settlement, Roman 104 Marden, River 109
south-east of 109 Marden henge 27
Knight, Capt C. W. E. 65 Marlborough 57, 104, 106
Knight, Esmond 65 Marlborough Downs 77–8, 78, 99, 125
knives Marlborough Mound 7
Bronze Age 97 dating evidence 42, 45, 46–7, 52–3, 88, 97
Anglo-Saxon 108, 109 environmental evidence 27
Knoll Down 13 later use of 119
Knowle Farm 78 surveys 22
Knowles, Sir Francis 132 Martinsell Hill 100, 103, 104, 106
Maurice, Thomas 136
Lacaille, A. D. 78 maypole 124–5
landscape survey and investigation 20–2 Merewether, J. 73, 97
Langdean stone circle 94 metal detecting 72
Larkhill Camp, beaker 31 metalwork
Leary, Jim 140 Bronze Age 97, 97, 99–100
Leicester University 3 Iron Age 101, 102, 103
Leland, John 22, 72 Romano-British 107
Leslie, Thomas 89–90 Anglo-Saxon 107–8, 108–9
lidar 19–20, 22 Viking 115
Liddington 100, 115 metalworking 100
listed buildings 127, 127, 128 Meux, Sir Henry 89–90
lithic scatters 24–5 Meyrick, Owen 99, 102, 103, 106
Littlecote 115 midden spreads 81–3
Long, William 74 milestones 124, 127, 132–3
long mounds 20, 85–6, 86 Millbarrow long barrow
Longleat House 66 dating evidence 42, 45, 53
Longstones Cove 47, 52, 57, 92, 136–7, 140 environmental evidence 27, 32, 75
Longstones enclosure geophysical survey 12
dating evidence 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 52 period-based assessment 85, 86, 102
environmental/economic evidence 27, 32, 33, Milton Lilbourne barrows 27, 34, 35
34, 38 Ministry of Works 63, 135, 138, 139
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molluscan analysis 25 Penn 110

Monkton Down 99, 102 pennings 123
monumentality period-based assessments
Earlier Neolithic 85–7, 86 Lower–Middle Palaeolithic 77–9, 78
Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 87–97 Late Glacial–Early Post-Glacial 79–80, 79
mortuary enclosures 87 Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 81–98, 82
Mother Anthony’s Well 106 Middle–Late Bronze Age 98–100, 99
Mount Pleasant 99 Iron Age 100, 101–3
museum collections 4, 60, 61–4, 62 Romano-British 104–7, 104, 109
post-Roman–Early Anglo-Saxon 107–10, 108
National Archives 66 Mid–late Saxon–medieval 110–19, 111, 115, 121
National Mapping Programme 4, 17–19, 18 post-medieval 119–26, 119, 121
National Museum of Wales 62 modern 136–42
National Trust Pewsey 115
archives 70 Pewsey Hill Farm 28
buildings demolished by 121, 135, 138 picks, antler 41, 46, 60, 90
as employer 141 Piggledene 13
fieldwork 3, 14, 23, 58, 63, 91, 92 Piggott, Stuart 64, 74–5, 84, 86, 90–1, 93, 137, 138
land sold to 137 pin, Bronze Age 97
management agreements 142 Pitt Rivers Museum 66
metal-detecting 72 Pitts, M. W. 63, 91, 93, 140
museum and barn 63, 134, 140 plant remains 25
Negotiating Avebury Project 3, 64, 71 Early Neolithic 31
New Town 101 Middle–Late Neolithic 33–4, 84
North, J. 98 Beaker/Early Bronze Age 35
North Down 99 Middle–Late Bronze Age 36, 37
North Farm 25, 27, 101, 102, 122 Late Bronze/Early Iron Age–Late Iron Age 38
Northern Inner Circle 73, 88, 89, 136 Romano-British 38, 39
Anglo-Saxon–medieval 39
Obelisk 88 post-medieval 123
Og, River 80 Pollard, Joshua 140
Ogbourne St Andrew 109 pollen analysis 25, 30
Oldbury Castle 13, 22, 100, 103, 104–6, 109 Portable Antiquities Scheme 72
Oliver’s Castle 100, 103, 104, 106 Potterne 28, 37–8, 60, 61
Open Data initiatives 70 pottery
oppidum 22 Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 31, 84–5, 84, 93,
optically stimulated luminescence dating 40, 56 94, 95, 97
Outer Circle 88, 88, 89, 90, 90, 103, 137 Middle–Late Bronze Age 99, 100
Overton, parish 67 Iron Age 101, 102, 103
Overton Down Romano-British 104, 106
aerial archaeology 16 Anglo-Saxon–medieval 108, 110–11, 113, 114,
barrows 85, 97 117, 118
environmental evidence 27–8 post-medieval 125, 126
experimental earthwork 25, 25, 28 pottery production, Romano-British 106
field systems 36, 37, 103 pottery residues 61
geophysical survey 13, 14 Pound Barrow 35
settlements 37, 38, 101, 101, 103, 104 Pound Field round barrow 28
Overton Hill Preshute Down 98, 101
barrow cemetery 12, 28, 56, 97, 106 Preshute G1a barrow 96–7
causewayed enclosure 13 Preshute villa 104
pottery 83 priory 113–14, 118, 121, 132
see also Hackpen
oysters 38–9 Quemerford 110
querns 100, 101, 103
Paganism 139, 141–2
parish records 66, 67, 145 Raddun Wroughton Mead/Copse 28, 39
Passmore, A. D. 23, 90 radiocarbon dating 40–1
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Avebury henge 41–4, 43, 48–9 built heritage 127, 132, 133
calibration 10 period-based assessment
Longstones enclosure 43, 44 Anglo-Saxon 113, 115, 117–18
overview 46–58 medieval 114, 115
West Kennet palisade enclosures 44–6 post-medieval 124
railings 132, 132 St Joseph, J. K. 17
Rainbold the priest 117, 118 Salisbury Museum 61, 62, 62
Reading University 7 The Sanctuary
recent research 3–4 burial 60
Recent Research in the Stonehenge Landscape dating evidence 47
(2005–2012) 8 environmental evidence 28
Red Lion public house 65, 133, 134 excavation archive 64
Red Shore bell barrow 28 geophysical survey 13
Renfrew, Colin 75 historic interpretation 74
research agendas 9, 10 period-based assessment
research frameworks Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 84, 87, 91, 92,
existing 1, 3, 6 93–4, 93
new 4–6 post-medieval 125, 126
aims and objectives 6 modern 137, 138, 140, 142
components 10 Sandy Lane 104
consultation 7 Savernake Forest 19, 22, 57, 69, 106
geographical scope 7–8 scientific dating 40
lifespan 10 Mesolithic 40–1
structure 8–9 Neolithic–Bronze Age 41–57, 43–4, 45
Research Information Network 63 1st millennium cal BC and later 57
research methods 11; see also aerial archaeology; Iron Age, Roman and post-Roman 57
biomolecular analyses; documentary sources; Early medieval–modern 57–8
environmental archaeology; geographic Scott-Jackson, J. E. 78
information systems; geophysical survey; Sebastion, Tim 141
historic interpretations; landscape survey and sediment analysis 25, 30
investigation; metal detecting; museum Seeing Beneath Stonehenge Project 71
collections; scientific dating; surface artefact settlement
collection; Wiltshire Historic Environment Record Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 81–4
research strategies 1, 9, 10 Middle–Late Bronze Age 98, 100
resource assessments 1, 8–9, 10; see also period- Iron Age 101–3, 101
based assessments Romano-British 104–7, 105
Richardson 116 Anglo-Saxon 107, 110
ridge and furrow 116, 121 Mid–late Saxon–medieval 110–19, 111, 115, 119
Ridgeway 107, 124, 124 post-medieval 119, 121–3
ring ditches 12, 14, 87, 96 see also built heritage
roads 124, 132–3 Seven Barrows 23
Rockley Down 28, 36, 37, 98, 100 Shaw 22, 116
Roman Diaspora Project 61 sheep fair 125
Rough Leaze 80, 83 Shelving Stones long barrow 13
Roughridge Hill shields, Anglo-Saxon 107
dating evidence 56 shrines 104, 106, 107, 108
environmental evidence 28, 30, 31, 35, 38 Silbury Hill
pits 83 archaeoastronomy 98
round barrow cemeteries 97, 99 dating evidence 40, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 53, 57
Roundway 109–10 environmental evidence 28, 33, 34, 38, 39
Roundway burial G8 42, 45, 47, 53, 60 excavation archive 64
Roundway burial G9 60 historic interpretation 73–4, 74, 75, 76
Roundway Down 109–10 period-based assessment
Royal Photographic Society 66 Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 88, 88, 96, 96
Rybury 86, 103 Middle–Late Bronze Age 103
Romano-British 104, 105, 106–7
St James’s church 112 Anglo-Saxon–medieval 115–16, 117, 119
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post-medieval 125, 126 archives 66, 120

modern 138–9, 140–1, 142 fieldwork by 22, 66, 72–3, 136
picks, antler 60 Avebury henge 89, 90
place-name 115 Avebury Manor 127
surveys 13, 15, 22, 24, 24 barrow 14
Silbury Hill Conservation Project 3, 15, 83 Beckhampton Avenue 16–17, 92
Silbury House 135 Beckhampton Penning barrow 85
Sloe Copse 13 Broadstones/Clatford stone circle 94
Smith, Revd A. C. 22, 73, 74, 89, 94, 120 Windmill Hill 86
Smith, Isobel 75, 86–7, 137 stone-breaking described by 129
Smith, R. W. 25, 75 Stukeley barrow 14, 28, 35, 39, 97
Snail Down 35 surface artefact collection 22–5, 24, 64
Solent Thames Research Framework 7–8 Swallowhead
South Street long barrow springs 33, 39, 96, 103, 106, 107, 139, 141
dating evidence 42, 45, 53, 56 surface artefact collection 23
environmental evidence 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38 Swindon 115
geophysical survey 12 sword, Anglo-Saxon 109
period-based assessment 83, 85 sword/dagger chape, Iron Age 103
South West Archaeological Research Framework 7
Southampton University 3 taboo 99, 103
Southern Inner Circle Tan Hill 22, 99, 100, 125
‘burials’ 73 Temple Down 108
resource assessment 88, 88, 89, 90, 91, 125, 137 Teutates 136
SPACES 3 Thames, River 80
spearheads thermoluminescence dating 40, 56
Bronze Age 99 Thomas, J. 23, 76
Anglo-Saxon 108 Thornhill 102
spindlewhorl 102 Thurnam, John 73, 86, 97
Stanton St Bernard 37, 57 timber circles 95
Stanton St Bernard Down 102 timber posts 80
stone breaking 123–4, 125–6, 129, 136 Time Team 106
stone burials 14, 57, 58, 91, 114, 118, 123 Toope, Dr 94
stone circles 94 Totterdown 37, 101, 102
Stonehenge Trepplin, E. C. 89
recent research 3–4
research agenda 10 UNESCO 1
research framework 1, 3, 6 United Reformed Chapel 91, 124, 131, 132, 144
research strategy 10 Upper Kennet Valley 28, 30
resource assessment 8, 10
taboo 99 Valor Ecclesiasticus 66
World Heritage site 2, 5 Vatcher, Faith 63, 75, 91, 111
Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site Vatcher, Lance 111
Management Plan 1 Verlucio 104, 106, 107
Stonehenge Avenue 3, 4 Victoria County History 65–6, 150
Stonehenge Environmental Improvements Project 69 villas, Roman 104, 106
Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project 4, 71 votive deposition 103, 107
Stonehenge Riverside Project 3, 71
Stonehenge Visitor Centre 4 Waden Hill
Stonehenge World Heritage Site: An Archaeological dating evidence 56
Research Framework 1, 5, 6 environmental evidence 29
Stonehenge World Heritage Site Landscape Project geophysical survey 13, 14
3–4 hanging bowl mount 108
Stonehenge World Heritage Site Management Plan observer’s post 133
(2009) 1 place-name 108
Stones of Stonehenge Project 94, 96 settlement evidence 91, 107
Stukeley, William strip-lynchets 116
Abury 73, 73, 92, 115 ‘Stukeley’ barrow 14, 28, 35, 39, 97
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surface artefact collection 23, 24 period-based assessment 97, 99, 104, 106, 107–8,
Waden Hill North barrow cemetery 97 110, 115, 121
waleditch 112 see also Headlands Enclosure; North Farm;
Wanborough 104 The Sanctuary
Wansdyke 13, 29, 53, 57, 109, 117 West Overton barrow 1B 42, 45, 60
water meadows 114, 123, 134 West Overton barrow G1 45, 47, 54, 60, 97
Watson, Aaron 76 West Overton barrow G6b 29, 83, 84, 85, 97
Wawcott 80 West Overton barrow G16 12
Wessex Archaeology 5, 23, 70–1, 95 West Overton barrow G19 42, 45, 46, 54, 56, 85,
West Amesbury henge 3 96, 99
West Kennet Avenue West Overton Formation 36
dating evidence 47, 53, 56 Westbrook Farmhouse 127, 134
environmental evidence 29, 33, 34 Westbury 37
excavation archives 63 Wheatley, David 25, 71
geophysical survey 8, 12, 14 Whittle, Alasdair 75, 94, 95, 140
historic interpretation 73, 74, 76 Wilcot 104
human bone 60 Williamson, Sir Adam 132, 135
period-based assessment Wilsford henge 7, 7
Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 83, 84, 87, 91–2, Wilson, Daniel 73
91, 97 Wilton House 66
Anglo-Saxon–medieval 114 Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History
post-medieval 126 Society 74, 89, 90, 136–7
modern 137, 140, 142 Wiltshire Council 67, 70, 142, 146
surface artefact collection 23 Wiltshire Historic Environment Record 67–8, 67,
West Kennet long barrow 70, 71
archaeoastronomy 98 Wiltshire Museum 61, 62, 63, 64, 66
dating evidence 40, 41, 42, 46, 54 Wiltshire Record Society 66
environmental evidence 29, 30 Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre 66–7
geophysical survey 13, 14 Windmill Hill
interpretation 74, 75 biomolecular analyses 59, 61
period-based assessment dating evidence 40, 41, 42, 45, 46
Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 84, 85–6, 86, 87, 88 environmental evidence 29, 30, 31, 33, 34
Romano-British 106, 107 excavation archives 63, 64
post-medieval 123 field system 103
modern 138, 138, 141, 141, 142 geophysical survey 11, 13, 14
West Kennet palisade enclosures interpretation 75
aerial survey 17, 19, 20 period-based assessment
dating evidence 44–6, 44, 47, 53–4 Neolithic–Early Bronze Age 83, 84, 84–5, 84,
environmental evidence 29, 32–3, 34 86–7, 97
excavation archive 64 Middle–Late Bronze Age 100
geophysical survey 13, 14 Iron Age 102
interpretation 75 post-medieval 126
period-based assessment 83, 84, 85, 87–8, 94–5, modern 137, 138, 142
110, 140 surface artefact collections 22, 23, 81
pottery residues 61 Windmill Hill Culture 84
West Kennett 121, 127, 128, 131, 135 Winterbourne 29, 30
West Kennett Farm Winterbourne, River 86
built heritage 133, 134, 135 Winterbourne Bassett 13, 88, 94, 108–9
dating evidence 53 Winterbourne Monkton 47–56, 60, 67, 97, 106, 110
environmental evidence 29 Winterbourne Monkton Down 106
geophysical survey 13 Withy Copse 106
settlement 121–2 Woodland Management Strategy 70
West Kennett House 127, 135 Wroughton Copse 13, 102
West Overton
dating evidence 40, 42, 45, 51–2, 56 Yatesbury 13, 109–10, 115, 116, 133
environmental evidence 29, 37, 38–9 Young, W. E. V. 63, 64
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