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William Stukeley FRS FSA (7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765) was an English antiquarian, physician and Anglican clergyman. A significant influence on the later development of archaeology , he pioneered the scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire.
In the Early Bronze Age, several round barrows were erected on Overton Hill, close to the Sanctuary. The site was largely destroyed in around 1723, although not before William Stukeley was able to visit and draw it. [22] [23] The 1930 excavation revealed the body of a young girl buried alongside the eastern stone of the inner stone circle. She ...
It probably dates to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Only one stone, known as Adam, remains standing and even in William Stukeley's time (early 18th century) there was little evidence on the surface of the avenue. [1] The other stones were probably broken up and sold by local landowners in the post-medieval era.
William Stukeley, the antiquarian, believed a Roman fort once occupied the site where the mound is located, based on the finding of Roman coins. [1] Roman artefacts were found in subsequent investigations by A.S Eve in 1892 and H.C Brentnall in 1938. [7] [8]
John Aubrey was also the first writer to erroneously connect Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments with the Iron Age Druids. It was not until the early 18th century that Castlerigg came to the attention of the wider public, when William Stukeley (1687–1765) visited the site, in 1725.
Normanton Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age barrow cemetery, about 0.6 miles (1 km) south of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The burials date from between 2600 and 1600 BC and consist of a Neolithic long barrow and some 40 or more Bronze Age round barrows, along the crest of a low ridge.
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