The Marlborough Downs PDF Download

Author: Ken Watts
Publisher: Ex Libris Press
ISBN: 9781903341155
Category : Marlborough Downs (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Author: Kenneth Watts
Publisher: Ex Libris Press
ISBN: 9780948578526
Category : Marlborough Downs (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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The Marlborough Downs is an expanse of chalk upland which lies at te heart of southern England. In prehistoric times, these Wiltshire hills were well populated and the imprint of early man is visible everywhere. Now sparsely populated, the Downs are still easily accessible, particularly to those prepared to leave their cars and explore on foot.

Author: Christopher Gingell
Publisher: Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural History Society
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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This volume usefully brings together the results of fieldwork since the 1970's on the Downs north and west of Marlborough. Excavations on the Ogbourne enclosures show that they are not cattle kraals, as once thought, but developed settlement sites of the later Bronze Age incorporated into an extensively farmed and ordered landscape. Further excavations in open settlements at Burderop Down and on farmsteads at Dean Bottom and Rockley Down yielded pottery, stone, metal, faunal and environmental evidence adding to our understanding of Bronze Age communities; not least is an important Beaker assemblage from Dean Bottom. Extensive report on excavations with specialist chapters on finds and environmental evidence.

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Author: Pauline Mary Brentnall
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Category : Avebury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Graham Brown
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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It is over one hundred years since the publication of the wide ranging archaeological field investigation undertaken on the Marlborough Downs by the Rev A C Smith. His work Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs in a Hundred Square Miles round Abury was originally published in two volumes in 1884 by the Marlborough College Natural History Society, then reprinted and bound into a single volume and published in 1885 by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society after half the original print run was destroyed in a fire. As in most works of inventory the volume has certainly stood the test of time and is still one of the basic reference texts for students of the area. Since then, apart from a few notable exceptions, archaeological literature about the area has been largely site-based and there has been little concerning the Marlborough Downs as a whole. In order to try and redress this imbalance, a day conference was organised in April 2002 at the University of Bath, Swindon, where it was possible to acknowledge and mark the ongoing validity of Smith's work and where a number of papers on various aspects of recent research on the Marlborough Downs were presented. The results of the conference are presented in this volume, together with a number of other commissioned contributions from individuals who have undertaken research in the area during the last decade or so. Each essay stands alone, but they are connected by a common theme, that of the land and how it has changed over millennia.

Author: English Nature
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Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: English Nature (Agency : Great Britain)
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Category : Natural areas
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Mariel Russell
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Category : Wiltshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Charles Hamilton Sorley
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Languages : en
Pages : 160

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