Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag 82

Although the term 'cove' has been used since the 18th century for three-sided megalithic settings such as that at Avebury, no corpus or analysis has previously been made of them. Dating is difficult but it is suggested that coves were a Late Neo development in the transition from chambered tombs to stone circles, and were a focus for funerary rites. Twelve (including some doubtfuls) are listed. Au (adp)

The hunting-dog mosaic known since 1913 at Cherhill was re-excavated and identified as a product of Durnovarian mosaicists expanding their operations northwards in c mid-4th century. It was lifted and donated to Devizes Museum for permanent display; D S Neal provides a reconstruction painting. At Manningford Bruce the ?courtyard villa in the graveyard extension is a new discovery with fragments of a fine mosaic with a Central Italian design based on ellipses (reconstructed by Luigi Thompson). The close relationship of church to mosaic at each site needs further investigation.