Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag 95

Mostly historical account of Triqueti's life and work. Focuses on a marble tarsia panel erected in the church in 1863.

Mostly historical, discusses the impact of the First World War on land-use and agricultural practices in Wiltshire.

A watching brief and limited archaeological excavations within Marlborough College precinct revealed a ditch, pits, a robber trench and other features, all datable to between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries AD from ceramic evidence. The ditch was interpreted as defensive, perhaps that of a possible second bailey of the castle. The pits were probably cess pits dug in the backland of a medieval burgage fronting the High Street. A preliminary evaluation had failed to identify stratified deposits.

which records over 260 sherds, mostly dating from the first half of the first millennium BC

Most of a human skeleton excavated at Stonehenge in 1923, believed destroyed by bombing in 1941, was relocated in 1999. A new study of the bones shows them to represent a man of Anglo-Saxon era (not Neolithic or Roman as previously suggested) aged 28--32, born in central southern England. He had been beheaded, probably with a sword. Includes specialist reports on:

which reports a date of cal AD 600--690

which reports that a tooth was analysed for traces of oxygen, lead and strontium, to determine the area that the man lived in

Excavation recovered evidence of later Iron Age and Early Romano-British settlement in the form of a cluster of storage-type pits and flanking ditches for an east--west aligned trackway. In addition, an extensive midden, a pit containing large quantities of artefacts and at least three inhumation burials resulting from fourth- to fifth-century AD Romano-British activity were identified. The nature of the artefacts recovered (including coins, cattle skulls, iron objects, a lead curse and a bronze garment collar) indicates that a shrine or temple might be situated in the site's vicinity. Other Late Romano-British deposits more typical of settlement-based activity were also present on the site. Includes specialist reports on:

which catalogues twenty-eight artefacts (one shale, one wood, eleven lead and fourteen copper-alloy)

which documents 279 iron artefacts. Includes a catalogue of finds

which documents 3,080 sherds, mostly from the Late Romano-British period

which records 194 fragments, including pieces of quern stones, stone roof tiles and burnt flint

notes thirty-four pieces

which reports sixty-one animal bone fragments from Late Iron Age/Early Romano-British deposits and 3,230 fragments from Late Romano-British contexts. Cattle dominate the assemblage, followed by horse and sheep/goat

An excavation covering three separate sites on land to the east of Devizes found modest evidence of occupation and activity ranging from the Neolithic period to the thirteenth-century. The principal evidence included a solitary Neolithic pit containing Peterborough Ware, and Mid to Late Iron Age farmstead, with some structural evidence and associated pits and small paddocks. Close to the farmstead was a first- to second-century AD trackway. Finds from the site included two iron agricultural tools of Iron Age date and a first-century AD catapult bolt-head. Includes separately authored reports on:

which records forty-one pieces of struck flint, seemingly Early Neolithic to Bronze Age in date

which analyses 1,151 fragments of bone. Cattle and sheep dominated the assemblage

Investigations in advance of housing redevelopment at Tidworth revealed pits of Early and Middle Saxon date containing pottery, animal bone, a dog skeleton, worked stone, bone and other artefacts. Although no structure was discovered the pits contained material of domestic origin, and provide evidence for a Saxon farmstead or other settlement nearby.

Reports a resistivity survey of part of Great Orchard Field, Potterne which established the probable location of the episcopal manor house and provided a possible indication of the layout and size of the structure.