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CONTENTSIntroduction .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1Landscape history.............................................................................................................................................................. 5Archaeological and historical background........................................................................................................... 7The excavations............................................................................................................................................................. 8The Earthworks ................................................................................................................................................................11The New King Barrows...........................................................................................................................................11The Old King Barrows.............................................................................................................................................14Amesbury 42.................................................................................................................................................................16Discussion .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1Discussion ............................................................................................................................................................................18The prehistoric landscape......................................................................................................................................18The designed landscape..........................................................................................................................................21The military landscape .............................................................................................................................................24Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................................................25Methodology......................................................................................................................................................................26References ...........................................................................................................................................................................27Documents at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre (WHC).........................................................32Documents in the Bodleian Library.................................................................................................................32Abbreviations used in this report......................................................................................................................32Appendix..............................................................................................................................................................................33© ENGLISH HERITAGE 83 - 2011
ILLUSTRATIONSFig 1: The location of the survey areas within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS)............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3Fig 2: The King Barrow Ridge..................................................................................................................................... 4Fig 3: Combined surveys of the New King Barrows...................................................................................12Fig 4: The Old King Barrows.....................................................................................................................................15Fig 5: The survey of Amesbury 42 ........................................................................................................................17Fig 6: Mid-19th century land use............................................................................................................................22Fig 7: The gunpost on Amesbury 37. ..................................................................................................................23© ENGLISH HERITAGE 83 - 2011
Page 1: RESEARCH DEPARTMENT REPORT SERIES n
Page 4 and 5: SUMMARYA rapid field investigation
Page 8 and 9: INTRODUCTIONLevel 1 surveys were co
Page 10 and 11: Fig 1: The location of the survey a
Page 12 and 13: LANDSCAPE HISTORYEnvironmental evid
Page 14 and 15: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKG
Page 16 and 17: stands 4.4m high and they were stil
Page 18 and 19: THE EARTHWORKSThe earthworks compri
Page 20 and 21: Amesbury 29The surviving earthworks
Page 22 and 23: Fig 4: The Old King Barrows.The sur
Page 24 and 25: Fig 5: The survey of Amesbury 42The
Page 26 and 27: the long barrow marking the boundar
Page 28 and 29: agricultural marks. Other features
Page 30 and 31: The full extent of the Park was sho
Page 32 and 33: CONCLUSIONThe rapid survey was most
Page 34 and 35: REFERENCESAinsworth, S, Bowden, M,
Page 36 and 37: Goddard, E H 1913 ‘A list of Preh
Page 38 and 39: Thomas, J, Marshall, P, Parker Pear
Page 40 and 41: APPENDIXTable 3: Measurements of th

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