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Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag 87
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Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag 87
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The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
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87
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1994
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BIAB (The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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20 Jan 2002
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Excavations at Millbarrow Neolithic chambered tomb, Winterbourne Monkton, North Wiltshire
Alasdair W R Whittle
1 - 53
Research excavations at this ruined chambered tomb formed part of a project to investigate the Neolithic sequence and context in the Avebury area. Radiocarbon dates place the monument in the later fourth millennium BC. Molluscan and soil analysis show a cleared setting, which closed in before being opened again in the Late Neolithic to EBA. The barrow had two pairs of flanking ditches, and the layout of the eastern end, which yielded human bone, may have been elaborate. The monument provides the first well documented information for the Neolithic period about the Lower Chalk plateau north of Windmill Hill, and can be related to other developments in the Neolithic of the area. Specialist reports begin with `Radiocarbon dates' by J Ambers & R Housley (24-6). `Molluscan analysis' by J Harris & J G Evans (26-32) is followed by `Micromorphological analysis of soils and sediments' by R I Macphail (32-4) and `Animal bone' by B Noddle (34-6). `The Neolithic human remains' by D Brothwell (36-8), `Pottery' by L Zienkiewicz (38-40) and `Worked flint' by J Pollard (40-4) complete this section. Finally, there follow `Appendix 1. Basic soil micromorphological descriptions' by R I Macphail (48-50) `Appendix 2. Dating, associations and contexts of flint polished-edge blade knives' by J Pollard (51-2).
Investigation of tree-damaged barrows on King Barrow Ridge and Luxenborough Plantation, Amesbury
Rosamund M J Cleal
Michael J Allen
54 - 84
Following the uprooting of large numbers of trees during the storms of October 1987 and January 1990, considerable damage was sustained to the barrow cemetery on King Barrow Ridge, near Stonehenge, and barrows in nearby Luxenborough Plantation. Recording of exposed archaeological deposits by Wessex Archaeology revealed that the barrows were constructed of stacks of turf and soil. Struck flints comparable with the known composition of the surrounding topsoil scatter and pottery of Peterborough Ware, Grooved Ware and Beaker affinity were recovered. These assemblages are compared with those from previous work on the Ridge. The protected nature of well preserved barrows has meant that many potential buried soils have not been accessible for detailed environmental analysis. Further, what limited molluscan analyses do exist are often confined to spot samples from various contexts and single samples of buried soils. The opportunity to examine the impressive barrows on King Barrow Ridge was therefore unprecedented and detailed analysis of the molluscan assemblages has demonstrated both environmental change and spatial variation in land use during the EBA. There follow specialist reports on `The pottery' by Rosamund M J Cleal (62-72), `Struck flint' by Frances Healy & Philip Harding (72-5), `The animal bones' by Christine Fitzgerald & Janet Egerton (75-6), `The contemporary land-use and landscape of the King Barrows as evidenced by the buried soils, pollen and molluscs' Michael J Allen & S F Wyles (76-81) including `Pollen' by R J Scaife & Michael J Allen (79) and `Mollusc assemblages' (79-81). There is a final summary discussion by the two main authors.
Stonehenge: slaughter, sacrifice and sunshine
Aubrey Aubrey W Burl
85 - 95
The name of Stonehenge's Slaughter Stone is an eighteenth-century invention. The sarsen was one of the latest stones in the enclosure. It is probable that it stood upright well into the seventeenth-century AD. Although at the north-east entrance, it was not a portal stone. Arguably, its purpose was astronomical.
Earthworks at Compton Bassett, with a note on Wiltshire fishponds
Christopher K Currie
96 - 101
Two large linear earthworks discovered in woodland bordering the Abberd Brook in Compton Bassett are shown to be the sites of two mills mentioned in the Domesday Book. From the thirteenth century, there is documentary evidence for at least one fishpond in association with this site. A description of the fishpond and mill earthworks is followed by a brief discussion of fishponds in Wiltshire, and a call for further fieldwork on this subject in the county.
St Michael's church, Aldbourne
Andrew Sewell
102 - 115
Previous studies of this substantial medieval downland church have been predominantly based on the art historical approach. Examination of the structure and recent opportunities to investigate concealed features in the course of repairs and alterations have underlined the value of a study based on constructional techniques and building materials.
Two Roman figurines from Wilcot
Martin Henig
142 - 143
Notes a small bronze female figurine, along with an abraded head of Venus.
A group of Salisbury poll books
John Musty
143 - 147
Notes the existence of previously ignored poll books, both in the author's possession and in Devizes and Salisbury itself. An appendix records `Salisbury city poll books in various collections' (146-7).
Excavation and fieldwork in Wiltshire 1992
149 - 159
Notes work in the county during this year.