Pollard, J., Gillings, M. and Wheatley, D. (1999). Pulling back the covers on sleeping stones. Lithics 20. Vol 20, pp. 30-31.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
Pulling back the covers on sleeping stones | ||||
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Subtitle The sub title of the publication or report |
recent excavations in the Beckhampton Avenue, Avebury | ||||
Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Lithics 20 | ||||
Series The series the publication or report is included in |
Lithics | ||||
Volume Volume number and part |
20 | ||||
Number of Pages The number of pages in the publication or report |
72 | ||||
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
30 - 31 | ||||
Biblio Note This is a Bibliographic record only. |
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Publication Type The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book |
Journal | ||||
Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
Discusses the history of the sarsen stones that were paired to form the Beckhampton Avenue, a processional avenue that ran from the western entrance of the late Neolithic henge monument at Avebury in Wiltshire. Some of the stones were buried during the medieval period, whilst many others were broken up for building stone in the 17th and 18th centuries. Of three buried sarsens recently excavated at Beckhampton, one contained several natural perforations into which objects had been placed, whilst its 'pair' showed surface features resulting from utilisation of the stone for the grinding and polishing of stone axes. Such 'polishing' events may have been of great antiquity by the time the stones at Avebury and Beckhampton were chosen and set up, and serve to further highlight their complex history. LD | ||||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
1999 | ||||
Locations Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published. |
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Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered |
19 Dec 2014 |
