Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials
Stonehenge Monuments and Burials is in Stonehenge Landscape.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Blick Mead Encampment [Map]
Blick Mead [Map] is a chalkland spring in Wiltshire, near to the River Avon. Excavation since 2005 indicates that there was continuous human habitation from 8000BC to 6000BC. 35,000 worked flints and 2400 animal bones, some cooked, mostly from Bos Longifrons, have been found at the site.
In 2017 a tooth from a domesticated dog was found. The tooth was from around 5000BC, and originally from Yorkshire.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Bluestonehenge [Map]
Bluestonehenge is also in Stonehenge Bronze Age.
2500BC to 2300BC. Bluestonehenge [Map] is a ring of pits at the termination of the Stonehenge Avenue [Map] at its southern end where it meets the Wiltshire River Avon. Stone chips were discovered. Originally thought to be of the Stonehenge Bluestones they were subsequently found not to be. Bluestonehenge [Map] is not a @@Henge. Radiocarbon dating of antler tools found at the site has provided only an approximate date of 2469 to 2286 BC for the dismantling of the stones.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Coneybury
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Coneybury Anomaly [Map]
Coneybury Anomaly is also in Stonehenge Neolithic.
3850BC. Coneybury Anomaly [Map] is a pit containing a large amount of early Neolithic pottery together with a large quantity of animal bone, and flint tools of both Mesolithic and Neolithic types suggesting a unique cross-cultural feast 12m north-west of Coneybury Henge [Map]. The bones included at least ten cattle, plus several roe deer, two red deer and a pig. The material was radiocarbon dated to 3850BC ±150.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Coneybury Henge [Map]
Coneybury Henge is also in South England Henges, Stonehenge Bronze Age.
Coneybury Henge [Map] is 14km south-east of Stonehenge - they are inter-visible. It has a north-east entrance, an internal circle of postholes, and fragments of bone and pottery. It is now almost completely flattened; it was identified by geophysical survey.
Carbon Date. 3050BC. Middle Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Bone: Bos
ID: 4997, C14 ID: OxA-1402 Date BP: 5050 +/- 100, Start Date BP: 4950, End BP: 5150
Abstract: Coneybury Henge, England [Map]
Archaeologist Name: Richards
Reference Name: Archaeometry 31(2), 1989, 207-234
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Carbon Date. 2370BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: bone:-
ID: 5004, C14 ID: OxA-1409 Date BP: 4370 +/- 90, Start Date BP: 4280, End BP: 4460
Abstract: Coneybury Henge, England [Map]
Archaeologist Name: Richards
Reference Name: Archaeometry 31(2), 1989, 207-234
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Carbon Date. 2200BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: bone:dog
ID: 5003, C14 ID: OxA-1408 Date BP: 4200 +/- 110, Start Date BP: 4090, End BP: 4310
Abstract: Coneybury Henge, England [Map]
Archaeologist Name: Richards
Reference Name: Archaeometry 31(2), 1989, 207-234
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Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Coneybury Hill Barrow [Map]
Coneybury Hill Barrow is also in Stonehenge Bronze Age Barrows.
Stonehenge by William Stukeley. Table X. South East Prospect from Stonehenge. [Left to right, north to south, New King Barrows, a barrow named as Kingbarrow but is likely to be Coneybury Hill Barrow [Map], the spire of Salisbury Cathedral [Map]]
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Cuckoo Stone [Map]
Before 2000BC. The Cuckoo Stone [Map] is a Sarsen stone, the same as those used at Stonehenge, around 2.5km from Stonehenge. The Stonehenge Riverside Project concluded the Stone was originally a natural feature, which sometime before 2000 BC, was placed in an upright position.
The location was later used for crematin burials, and a small timber building, possibly a temple, during the Roman period around which a number of finds were discovered.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Durrington Walls
Durrington Walls is also in South England Henges, Stonehenge Late Neolithic Early Bronze Age.
2800BC to 2100BC. Durrington Walls was a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure.
Colt Hoare 1812. On the south side of Durrington Walls, is an elevated mound, bearing the appearance of a barrow, No. 122 [
Colt Hoare 1812. From hence, I proceed towards the vale of the river Avon, where, adjoining the public road, We find the interesting remains of a spacious British town or village, called Durrington, or Long Walls. The first name is evidently derived from the Celtic word for, water, and applies to the situation of the adjoining village of Durrington near the river. The site of this ancient settlement is decidedly marked by a circular embankment, partly natural, and partly artificial, which shelters it from the south-west winds: the view it commands in front, is delightful, facing the rich and well wooded vale, and the lofty range of Haradon and adjoining hills. Having been for many years in tillage, its form is much mutilated; but from what remains, it appears to have been of a circular form, and to have had a vallum all around it on the high ground, but not on the east side near the water. We picked up a great deal of pottery within the area of the works.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Durrington Walls Henge
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Durrington Walls Timber Circle [Map]
2600BC. Durrington Walls Timber Circle [Map] is a Neolithic enclosure two miles east-north-east of Stonehenge. The circle was oriented southeast towards the sunrise on the midwinter solstice. Its four large concentric circles of postholes would have held extremely large standing timbers.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Robin Hood's Ball
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Robin Hood's Ball, Netheravon 6 Long Barrow [Map]
Netheravon 6 Long Barrow is also in South England Neolithic Long Barrows.
It is a curious fact that Five Wells Chambered Tomb [Map] is, within 0.2 of a degree of longitude, north of Stonehenge [Map] - see Five Wells Chambered Tomb and Stonehenge Alignment. Moreover, this line of longitude, give or take 500m, has the highest number of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Monuments on it when compared to other lines of longitude. North to South:
Five Wells Chambered Tomb [Map]
Monkton Fields Long Barrow [Map]
Netheravon 6 Long Barrow [Map]
Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Netheravon. 6. [Netheravon 6 Long Barrow [Map]] On Netheravon Down, E. of Netheravon Bake, N.E. of the clump of trees known as Robin Hood Ball. Length 111ft.; S.S.E. and N.N.W. Opened by Thurnam, who does not seem to have published any account of his discoveries beyond that in the summary list in Arch. xlii. The following entry, however, appears in the MS. Gat.: — "No. 236. Ancient British. From a long barrow much degraded by the plough in the parish of N etheravon, and about ½ a mile from the one in the parish of Figheldean. Excavated by Dr. Thurnam, Sept. 21, 1865. Near the east end and about a foot below the surface on the chalk rock were the broken scattered bones of one or perhaps two skeletons from which I picked out the fragments from which this calvarium has been restored, also the lower jaw almost perfect. With these was the cleft fragment of a second skull, and a portion of a small female jaw."
The mound is now very low, flat, and broad, and the ditches indistinct.
It is turfed, and looks as if it had been down to grass for many years.
O.M. 54 N.W.; A. W. I. Map only, of Amesbury Station; Arch. xlii. 180; MS. Cat. 236.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Robin Hood's Ball Enclosure [Map]
Robin Hood's Ball Enclosure is also in South England Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures, Stonehenge Neolithic.
4000BC. Robin Hood's Ball Enclosure [Map] is a Causewayed Enclosure constructed around 4000BC and in use until 3000BC around 4.3km north-west of Stonehenge standing on a low hill affording views in all directions including Stonehenge. It has one causeway.
Carbon Date. 2740BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Bone: Bos
ID: 4995, C14 ID: OxA-1400 Date BP: 4740 +/- 100, Start Date BP: 4640, End BP: 4840
Abstract: Robin Hood's Ball [Map], England
Archaeologist Name: Richards
Reference Name: Archaeometry 31(2), 1989, 207-234
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Carbon Date. 2510BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Bone: Bos
ID: 4996, C14 ID: OxA-1401 Date BP: 4510 +/- 90, Start Date BP: 4420, End BP: 4600
Abstract: Robin Hood's Ball [Map], England
Archaeologist Name: Richards
Reference Name: Archaeometry 31(2), 1989, 207-234
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Colt Hoare 1812. Iter IV. Starting once more From my head quarters at Amesbury, I shall direct my course towards KNIGHTON LONG BARROW [Map], which, from its elevated situation on a high ridge of land, rivals, if not surpasses, ELL BARROW in preminence of prospect, The first object of our attention: near a clump of trees called ROBIN HOOD BALL [Map], is one those ancient circles, which I have before mentioned and described in the Heytesbury Station, p. 80, This, like the generality of them, is placed on an elevated and commanding situation, but has this peculiarity, of having one circle within the other, with an entrance towards the north. We have to regret the great injury these circles have sustained by the plough, as in their original state they must have been highly curious, and are the more remarkable, from representing a double circle.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Robin Hood's Ball Long Barrow [Map]
Robin Hood's Ball Long Barrow is also in South England Neolithic Long Barrows.
Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Figheldean. 31. [Robin Hood's Ball Long Barrow [Map]] S. of Robin Hood Ball (clump of trees) and E. of circular earthwork. Length 148ft. S.E. and N.W. Opened by Thurnam Sept. 8th, 1864, who found the primary interment, consisting of the bones of a single individual, hot in their natural order, but forming a pile, very little to the east of the centre of the mound. He also found a secondary burial of a skeleton with a "drinking cup."1 The following account is from the M.S. Cat.: — "The primary interment consisted of a skeleton doubled up in the black earth at the base of the barrow, within a space of not more than 1½ft. square. There was reason for thinking that the bones had been separated in part before interment, the head of one tibia being in apposition with the malleolus of the other, though lying side by side. The primary interment in this barrow (which is in sight of Stonehenge) though lying towards the east, was much nearer the centre than usual2, and was only found (after making four distinct excavations) about 55ft. from the east end, the entire length being 150ft. The skeleton was in the usual stratum of dry brown earth, the bones and especially the skull being remarkable for their peculiarly eroded character. Within ljft. to the east of the skeleton was an oblong hole or cist in the chalk rock, 2ft. 9in. (long?) and 1ft. deep, with nothing in it but dry brown earth." The secondary interment was "about a foot below the surface, about 40ft. from the east end of the same barrow; the skeleton was in a moderately contracted posture, with head to N.W. Near the hips a fine drinking cup of red ware much broken, but since restored."
The whole of the central part of this barrow has been carted away, leaving practically only the fringe of the mound. This most regretable destruction seems to have been perpetrated during the last four or five years by the military on the Plain, apparently for the purpose of making a shelter hut. O.M. 54 N W.; A. W. I. 176; Arch. xlii. 180, 184, 197, 198; Bull, de la Soc. d'Anthrop. 2 S. ii. 357, GT7,fig. Men. Anthrop. Soc. iii.; MS. Cat. 233—4.
This is the barrow referred to by Thurnam as " Figheldean."
Note 1. This vessel is now in the British Museum.
Note 2. See Warminster 6.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Stonehenge Car Park Post Holes
Stonehenge Car Park Post Holes is also in Stonehenge Mesolithic.
Carbon Date. 7130BC. Mesolithic Carbon Dates
Report: charcoal; from hole A (depth 0.76m), half way between the top (natural chalk) and the base, at the edge of the hole.
ID: 17859, C14 ID: HAR 455 Date BP: 9130 +/- 180, Start Date BP: 9310, End BP: 8950
Abstract: Stonehenge, 20th Century: Car Park 1966; 1973-74
Reference Name: Jordan, D, Haddon-Reece, D, Bayliss, A 1994 'Radiocarbon dates: from samples funded by English Heritage and dated before 1981', London: English Heritage
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Around 7000BC the Stonehenge Car Park Post Holes were created in what became the car park for the visitor's centre.
Carbon Date. 6880BC. Mesolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Charcoal, id as Pinus, from postpit WA 9580 at Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England. Comment (subm): see ref.
ID: 8028, C14 ID: GU-5109 Date BP: 8880 +/- 120, Start Date BP: 8760, End BP: 9000
OS Letter: SU, OS East: 123, OS North: 422
Archaeologist Name: F Vatcher & L Vatcher
Reference Name: Cleal, R M J et al, 'Stonehenge in its landscape: 20th century excavations' (Engl Heritage Archaeol Rep, 10, 1995), 47, 511; Archaeometry, 38, 1996, 401-7
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Carbon Date. 6880BC. Mesolithic Carbon Dates
Report: charcoal; from the base of the secondary fill of postpit 9580, at c 0.7m depth (context 9582). The pit was cut into the chalk, with chalk rubble fill.
ID: 17861, C14 ID: GU 5109 Date BP: 8880 +/- 120, Start Date BP: 9000, End BP: 8760
Abstract: Stonehenge, 20th Century: Car Park 1988; 1990-91
Reference Name: Bayliss et al forthcoming 'Radiocarbon dates: from samples funded by English Heritage between 1988 and 1993', Swindon: English Heritage
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Carbon Date. 6090BC. Mesolithic Carbon Dates
Report: charcoal; from hole B, depth 0.91m from the surface of the natural chalk.
Abstract: Stonehenge, 20th Century: Car Park 1966; 1973-74
ID: 17860, C14 ID: HAR 456 Date BP: 8090 +/- 140, Start Date BP: 8230, End BP: 7950
Reference Name: Jordan, D, Haddon-Reece, D, Bayliss, A 1994 'Radiocarbon dates: from samples funded by English Heritage and dated before 1981', London: English Heritage
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In 1966, when the Stonehenge Visitor Centre Car Park was again extended (so that it was by this time four times the size of the original), a series of circular features cut into the chalk bedrock, and set roughly in line, were observed. Excavation was undertaken by Faith Vatcher, at that time the much-respected curator of the Avebury Museum, with her husband Major Lance Vatcher. They discovered that three of the features were substantial pits cut into the ground, while a fourth was the place where a tree had once stood.
"The four pits were all roughly circular, 1.3m to 1.9m in diameter, and 1.3m to 1.5m deep, and appear once to have held substantial posts c.0.75m in diameter. Unlike the Vatcher's pits, Trott's was found to have been re-cut at a much later stage and subsequently deliberately back-filled. Only a few undiagnostic flint flakes and other remains were incorporated into the fill of the pits. However, charcoal from the fills was found to be solely from pine trees. More surprisingly, radiocarbon dates obtained from this charcoal suggest that the pits had been dug between 10,500 and 8,500 years ago. Snail shells and pollen grains preserved in the fill suggest that the pits were cut in woodland. Taken together, the disposition of soil layers within the pits, the pine charcoal, radiocarbon dates and snail shells provide sound evidence that during the Early Mesolithic a group of people erected stout pine posts in the middle of a mature pine and hazel (Boreal) woodland (Cleal et al. 1995, 43-56).
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Stonehenge Car Park Post Holes A [Map]
Carbon Date. 7130BC. Mesolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Charcoal, id as pine, presumably decayed bark, from posthole A [Map], 76cm deep, on post circumference at Stonehenge Carpark site, Wiltshire, England. Subm H Keeley. Comment (subm FV): Dates are unexpectedly early; not known why this posthole is c 1000 yr older than HAR-456 which should have been contemporaneous. Samples, though pertaining to original posts, were of poor quality, being fine and mixed with other material.
ID: 8922, C14 ID: HAR-455 Date BP: 9130 +/- 180, Start Date BP: 8950, End BP: 9310
OS Letter: ST, OS East: 121, OS North: 424
Archaeologist Name: F & L Vatcher 1966
Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 29, 1987, 78-9; Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 68, 1973, 57-63 (site Proc Prehist Soc, 48, 1982, 75-132 esp 128 (date)
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Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Stonehenge Car Park Post Holes B [Map]
Carbon Date. 6090BC. Mesolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Charcoal, id as pine, presumably decayed bark, from posthole B [Map], 31cm from base at Stonehenge Carpark site, Wiltshire, England. Subm H Keeley. Comment (subm FV): Dates are unexpectedly early; not known why this posthole is c 1000 yr younger than HAR-455 which should have been contemporaneous. Samples, though pertaining to original posts, were of poor quality, being fine and mixed with other material.
ID: 8923, C14 ID: HAR-456 Date BP: 8090 +/- 140, Start Date BP: 7950, End BP: 8230
OS Letter: ST, OS East: 121, OS North: 424
Archaeologist Name: F & L Vatcher 1966
Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 29, 1987, 78-9; Wiltshire Archaeol Natur Hist Mag, 68, 1973, 57-63 (site Proc Prehist Soc, 48, 1982, 75-132 esp 128 (date)
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Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Stonehenge Palisade
Carbon Date. 468BC. Middle Iron Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as human femur, from context 9470, post-monument palisade ditch, human burial cut into ditch (C81), post-monument phase at Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England. Comment (subm): Date accepted as reliable; 2 sigma cal range given.
ID: 8083, C14 ID: UB-3820 Date BP: 2468 +/- 27, Start Date BP: 2441, End BP: 2495
OS Letter: SU, OS East: 123, OS North: 422
Archaeologist Name: F Vatcher (ed Cleal)
Reference Name: Cleal, R M J et al, 'Stonehenge in its landscape: 20th century excavations' (Engl Heritage Archaeol Rep, 10, 1995), 157, 337, ??? 2, Table 64
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Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Vespasians Camp [Map]
Vespasians Camp is also in Iron Age Hill Forts Wiltshire.
Vespasians Camp [Map] is an Iron Age Hill Fort with an area of 14 hectares.
Stonehenge by William Stukeley. In order to have a just notion of this avenue, it is necessary to go to the neighbouring height of Haradon hill [Map], on the other side the river. The largest barrow there, which I call Hara's and which probably gave name to the hill, is in the line of the avenue; the ford of Radfin lying between, as we see in the last Plate. I stood upon this hill May 11. 1724. during the total eclipse of the sun, of which I gave an account in my Itinerarium. Here is a most noble view of the work and country about Stonehenge. Whoever is upon the spot cannot fail of a great pleasure in it; especially if the fun be low, either after rising or before setting. For by that means the barrows, the only ornaments of these plains, become very visible, the ground beyond them being illuminated by the suns flaunting rays. You fee as far as Clay-hill beyond Warminster 20 miles off. You fee the spot of ground on the hill, whereon stands Vespasians camp [Map], where I conjecture the avenue to Stonehenge began, and where there was a facellum, as we conceive. From hence to that spot a valley leads very commodiously to Radfin [Map], where the original ford was.
Stonehenge by William Stukeley. Table III. Prospect of Stonehenge from the East by Vespasians Camp [Map]. [From left to right, being south to north. Yansbury Camp [Yarnbury Castle [Map]?], who location is unknown, Stonehenge, Stonehenge Avenue [Map], Cursus and N Long Barrow.
Stonehenge by William Stukeley. Table XXVI. Prospect of Vespasians Camp [Map] near Amberfbury. Augst 7. 1723. Prospect from the 7 barrows east of Amberfbury to the opening of the Avenue of Stonehenge & c. A. the beginning of the avenue [Map]. [This appears from the text to be a view from Haradon aka Telegraph Hill [Map]]
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Monuments and Burials, Woodhenge [Map]
Woodhenge is also in Stonehenge Bronze Age.
2250BC. Woodhenge [Map] is located 3km east-north-east of Stonehenge consisting of six concentric oval rings of postholes surrounded by a single flat-bottomed ditch 2.4m deep and up to 12m wide and an outer bank, about 10m wide and 1m high. The site has a single entrance at the north-east. At the centre of the rings was a crouched inhumation of a child whose remains were destroyed during the Blitz. Most of the 168 holes were found to have contained posts, some contained standing stones, some of the holes were 2m deep. The ditch has been dated to 2250BC ±250 years. Carbon Dating indicates the site was still in use in 1800BC.
Carbon Date. 2115BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Catholme (Where Rivers Meet) - charcoal; this sample is from a single fill of a post-pit. It was sealed below 0.30-0.40m of modern plough soil. Cut into sandy gravel natural subsoil, free draining geology.
ID: 9703, C14 ID: SUERC-11069 Date BP: 4115 +/- 35, Start Date BP: 4150, End BP: 4080
Abstract: Catholme Farm (Where Rivers Meet): Woodhenge [Map]
Archaeologist Name: M Hewson
Reference Name:
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Carbon Date. 2108BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Catholme (Where Rivers Meet) - charcoal; as OxA-16048
ID: 9702, C14 ID: OxA-16050 Date BP: 4108 +/- 31, Start Date BP: 4139, End BP: 4077
Abstract: Catholme Farm (Where Rivers Meet): Woodhenge [Map]
Archaeologist Name: M Hewson
Reference Name:
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Carbon Date. 2095BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Catholme (Where Rivers Meet) - charcoal; this sample came from a bulk sample from the primary fill of a post-pit. It was sealed by at least 0.30-0.40m of modern ploughsoil. Cut into sandy gravel natural subsoil, free-draining geology.
ID: 9700, C14 ID: OxA-16048 Date BP: 4095 +/- 30, Start Date BP: 4125, End BP: 4065
Abstract: Catholme Farm (Where Rivers Meet): Woodhenge [Map]
Archaeologist Name: M Hewson
Reference Name: Ward and Wilson 1978
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Carbon Date. 2018BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Catholme (Where Rivers Meet) - charcoal; as OxA-16048
ID: 9701, C14 ID: OxA-16049 Date BP: 4018 +/- 30, Start Date BP: 4048, End BP: 3988
Abstract: Catholme Farm (Where Rivers Meet): Woodhenge [Map]
Archaeologist Name: M Hewson
Reference Name:
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Carbon Date. 1975BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Catholme (Where Rivers Meet) - charcoal; as SUERC-11069
ID: 9704, C14 ID: SUERC-11070 Date BP: 3975 +/- 35, Start Date BP: 4010, End BP: 3940
Abstract: Catholme Farm (Where Rivers Meet): Woodhenge [Map]
Archaeologist Name: M Hewson
Reference Name:
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Carbon Date. 1817BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Antler pick, on floor of ditch at Woodhenge [Map], Wiltshire, England.
ID: 4643, C14 ID: BM-677 Date BP: 3817 +/- 74, Start Date BP: 3743, End BP: 3891
OS Letter: SU, OS East: 151, OS North: 434
Archaeologist Name: G J Wainwright
Reference Name: Radiocarbon, vol 18, 1976, 25-6; Proc Prehist Soc, 38, 1972, 389-407
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Carbon Date. 1755BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as animal, in primary rubble silt of ditch at Woodhenge [Map], Wiltshire, England.
ID: 4644, C14 ID: BM-678 Date BP: 3755 +/- 54, Start Date BP: 3701, End BP: 3809
OS Letter: SU, OS East: 151, OS North: 434
Archaeologist Name: G J Wainwright
Reference Name: Radiocarbon, vol 18, 1976, 25-6; Proc Prehist Soc, 38, 1972, 389-407
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1926. Aerial photograph of Woodhenge [Map] taken by Squadron Leader Gilbert Insall.