Geoffrey Wainwright
Biographic Data
| ID | 1141815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Wainwright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Wainwright |
| SIGNATURE | WAINWRIGHT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | English Heritage |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies is an unparalleled compendium of ecumenical history, information, and reflection. With essays by nearly fifty experts across various fields, the Handbook is a major resource for all who are involved or interested in ecumenical work for reconciliation between Christians and for the unity of the Church. Its six main sections consider the different phases of the history of the ecumenical movement from the mi…
Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies
One Baptism, One Church?
The Church of the Holy Spirit – By Nicholas Afanasiev
Stonehenge excavations 2008
The following paper is the first published account of an excavation that took place at Stonehenge during April 2008. As this was the first excavation to take place within the stone circle for some forty years, the excavation has attracted an uncommon degree of interest, hence its publication in the Antiquaries Journal as an interim account of work in progress, in the form of an edited transcript of a paper first given at the Ordinary Meeting of t…
Patterns of Communion
Communion is the condition and act which unites—or ought to unite—Christians in their common Lord: Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are on
The One Hope of Your Calling? The Ecumenical and Pentecostal Movements after a Century
Articles The One Hope of Your Calling? The Ecumenical and Pentecostal Movements after a Century Geoffrey Wainwright In the seventeenth chapter of Saint John, Jesus implores his Father that his present disciples, and indeed all who shall come to faith through their word, “may be one, so that the world may believe” in his own divine mission and receive the gift of eternal life which he brings (v. 20-21). The followers of Jesus were to be sancti ed …
A Cup-marked Stone from Dan-y-garn, Mynachlog-Ddu, Pembrokeshire, and the Prehistoric Rock-art from Wales
A small panel of mobiliary rock art containing two cup-mark motifs discovered in north Pembrokeshire in August 2002 is described and compared with other finds of rock art from Wales. Although the sites with passage-grave style rock art in north Wales are well-known, the more widespread yet less impressive cup-mark dominated panels found mainly around the upland fringes of the country have received relatively little attention. A provisional corpus…
Stone Circles, Oval Settings and Henges in South-west Wales and Beyond
Topographical and geophysical surveys carried out in August 2002 at three monuments in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire are reported: Bedd Arthur, Gors Fawr and Meini Gwyr. Previously unrecorded features were revealed at all three sites, most spectacularly at Meini Gwyr which, from the evidence of geophysical survey, appears to be a multi-phase monument that includes a double pit-circle, hengi-form monument and embanked enclosure with an intern…
SPACES - exploring Neolithic landscapes in the Strumble-Preseli area of southwest Wales
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The Stonehenge we deserve
After years of discussion and argument, the fate of Stonehenge and its landscape has been decided. As Professor Geoffrey Wainwright (former Head of Archaeology at English Heritage) describes, there is at last political will to ensure a better future for the monument
Time please
Professional archaeology in Britain has changed out of all recognition over the last 40 years, from an amateur world with a few paid professionals, to a fully professional activity. The changes have come about through different intiatives - popular and bureaucratic - and have led to new organizational structures, new funds, new people and different approaches. Few individuals have bridged this dynamic period as close to the driving seat as Profes…
Honor the Past and Imagine the Future
This paper considers the future for cultural heritage in the new Millennium. It briefly discusses recent developments towards the protection, management, and conservation of archaeological remains and monuments at an international level and of public attitudes towards cultural heritage. The power of certain heritage sites to attract visitors and their indispensible role in the tourist industry is considered, with the current plans for Stonehenge …
Ian Hodder. The archaeological process: An introduction. xiv+242 pages, 24 figures, 1 table. 1998. Oxford: Blackwell; 0-631-19884-9 hardback £50 & $59.95; 0-631-19885-7 £14.99 & $26.95
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Stonehenge saved
As was noticed in the December 1995 ANTIQUITY, the present surroundings of Stonehenge - premier monument of European prehistory - are unhappy. Geoffrey Wainwright, head of archaeology at English Heritage, reports the current proposals to make a fit setting for Stonehenge, and what may happen now
The Monuments at Risk Survey: An introduction
Another step has started in trying to figure out just what the collected archaeology of England amounts to — this time, with its change in mind
The Monuments At Risk Survey: An Introduction
Another step has started in trying to figure out just what the collected archaeology of England amounts to - this time, with its change in mind
The management of change: Archaeology and Planning
For over a century there have been arrangements in England for the "scheduling" (i.e. identification for protection) of ancient monuments. Central government consent is required for any works to Scheduled sites or monuments. Essentially sites and monuments have to be of national archaeological significance to merit scheduling; nonstatutory criteria have been defined for that purpose and over 13,000 have so far been scheduled. These represent only…
Ancient Britain
Renewing Worship: The Recovery of Classical Patterns
On almost all sides, official liturgical revisions in the second half of the twentieth century have recognized that Christian Sunday worship, in its fulness, includes both word and table. This is clearly stated in the Lima text on Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry, and in one way or another, practically all church responses accept this, whatever their respective difficulties of implementation. It is not simply a question of antiquarian return to e…
Saving the Rose
Geoffrey Wainwright, as the senior archaeologist within English Heritage, has been at the centre of the decisions and debates over the future of the Rose Theatre site. He sets out here his view of the issues, and explains why English Heritage adopted a policy of enclosing the site within an open basement of a new office building; thus ensuring its preservation and securing the option of future presentation to the public
Ecumenical Dimensions of Lindbeck's ‘Nature of Doctrine’
Theological Table-Talk: Liturgy and Poetry
Maiden Castle: Excavation, Education, Entertainment
In its developed or final form Maiden Castle, some two miles (3.2 km) south-west of Dorchester in Dorset, is an iron age hillfort, of great complexity, which takes in two knolls of a saddle-backed spur of Upper Chalk, the highest point of which is about 440 ft ( c. 134 m) above OD. The defences enclose47 acres ( c. 18 ha) and consist of three banks and two ditches with an additional bank inserted along most of the south side. There are two entran…
The Pressure of the Past: Presidential Address
Fifty years ago on 17 February 1934 the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia held its annual business meeting in Norwich. Professor Breuil was elected President for that year, Professor Miles Burkitt as Vice-President and Dr J. G. D. Clark as Honorary Editor. Other elections at that meeting included Mr Stuart Piggott to Council and O. G. S. Crawford to membership of the Society. It had been founded in 1908 when on 17 October a circular had been iss…
The Excavation of a Late Neolithic Enclosure at Marden, Wiltshire
Excavations in 1969 within a 35-acre enclosure at Marden on the north bank of the River Avon in the Vale of Pewsey confirmed its association with the Grooved Ware ceramic style and its superficial resemblances to the Durrington Walls enclosure ten miles downstream. A survey of the enclosure produced an unusual plan bounded by a bank with an internal ditch and on the south side by the River Avon itself, whilst the position of the Hatfield Barrow w…
The Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement on Broome Heath, Ditchingham, Norfolk, England
The excavation of the earthwork and part of the interior of a C-shaped enclosure in south Norfolk produced evidence of a Neolithic occupation from the mid fourth to the late third millennium B.C. The earthwork was constructed at the end of the third millennium B.C. and palaeobotanical analyses of the fossil soil beneath it produced information concerning the environment of the time. Quantities of pot-sherds and stone tools were recorded from the …
Stonehenge excavations 2008
The following paper is the first published account of an excavation that took place at Stonehenge during April 2008. As this was the first excavation to take place within the stone circle for some forty years, the excavation has attracted an uncommon degree of interest, hence its publication in the Antiquaries Journal as an interim account of work in progress, in the form of an edited transcript of a paper first given at the Ordinary Meeting of t…
The Shaugh Moor Project: Second Report—The Enclosure
The Shaugh Moor project is concerned with an area of moorland in south Dartmoor north-east and north respectively of the villages of Shaugh Prior and Wotter (fig. 1). The physical threat to the evidence for settlement and land-use caused by the operations of the China Clay industry involved the Central Excavation Unit of the Department of the Environment from 1976 in a programme of survey, excavation and environmental studies related to the settl…
The Shaugh Moor Project: First Report
Viewed from the south Devon littoral with its series of good harbours the dark bulk of Dartmoor is clearly visible across the flat coastal plain. It is the largest of the five granite masses that provide a spine to the south-west English peninsula (Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, Hensbarrow, Carnmenellis and Penwith) that were formed by the consolidation of molten material. The 500 square kilometres of the Moor form an undulating upland up to 600 m OD on …
The Excavation of Prehistoric and Romano-British Settlements at Eaton Heath, Norwich
The excavation in 1971 of an area in excess of 6,500 square metres on Eaton Heath in the south-western suburbs of Norwich, produced evidence for a Neolithic settlement overlaid by ditch systems of the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age and of the 1st century A.D. The earlier occupation was represented by pit groups which produced pottery in the Mildenhall style associated with a radio-carbon determination in the late 4th millennium B.C. and a series of shaf…
The Shaugh Moor Project: Fourth Report — Environment, Context and Conclusion
For five years from 1976 to 1980 the archaeology and environment of a block of landscape centred around Shaugh Moor on south-west Dartmoor were analysed prior to the destruction of some of the evidence by china clay working. The investigations began in 1976 with a survey of the field monuments and the initiation of soil, vegetation, small mammal and phosphate studies in addition to the search for peat deposits of sufficient antiquity. From 1977 t…
Stone Circles, Oval Settings and Henges in South-west Wales and Beyond
Topographical and geophysical surveys carried out in August 2002 at three monuments in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire are reported: Bedd Arthur, Gors Fawr and Meini Gwyr. Previously unrecorded features were revealed at all three sites, most spectacularly at Meini Gwyr which, from the evidence of geophysical survey, appears to be a multi-phase monument that includes a double pit-circle, hengi-form monument and embanked enclosure with an intern…
The Stonehenge we deserve
After years of discussion and argument, the fate of Stonehenge and its landscape has been decided. As Professor Geoffrey Wainwright (former Head of Archaeology at English Heritage) describes, there is at last political will to ensure a better future for the monument
The Pressure of the Past: Presidential Address
Fifty years ago on 17 February 1934 the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia held its annual business meeting in Norwich. Professor Breuil was elected President for that year, Professor Miles Burkitt as Vice-President and Dr J. G. D. Clark as Honorary Editor. Other elections at that meeting included Mr Stuart Piggott to Council and O. G. S. Crawford to membership of the Society. It had been founded in 1908 when on 17 October a circular had been iss…
SPACES - exploring Neolithic landscapes in the Strumble-Preseli area of southwest Wales
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Stonehenge saved
As was noticed in the December 1995 ANTIQUITY, the present surroundings of Stonehenge - premier monument of European prehistory - are unhappy. Geoffrey Wainwright, head of archaeology at English Heritage, reports the current proposals to make a fit setting for Stonehenge, and what may happen now
The Shaugh Moor Project: Third Report—Settlement and Environmental Investigations
The third phase of the Shaugh Moor Project comprised survey and excavation work on the Saddlesborough Main reave and Wotter Common (fig. 1). Following the decision of the china clay companies not to develop the area immediately around Saddlesborough (Area Y), Watts, Blake and Bearne & Co Ltd and English China Clays Ltd embarked upon a joint tipping programme which will eventually destroy the terminal reave east of Saddlesborough and most of the m…
The Iron Age settlement of Gussage All Saints. Part I. The settlement
In the parish of Britford SW of Sailisbury are two enclosures which were discovered as the result of a chance aerial photograph. The larger settlement was called Woodbury and to avoid confusion, the smaller settlement 500 m. to the east was named Little Woodlbury. The latter was selected by the Prehistoric Society as the site for a research excavation because its size made feasible a total exploration
Durrington Walls: A Ceremonial Enclosure of the 2nd Millennium BC
Durrington Walls lies one quarter of a mile to the north of the outskirts of Amesbury in Wiltshire and 9 miles north of Salisbury (SU 150437). Stonehenge is situated 2 miles to the south-east and 80 yds. to the south of the enclosure is Woodhenge which was excavated by Mrs Cunnington in 1926-8. The much ploughed bank, which encloses a dry valley opening on to the River Avon, was initially recorded by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in the early 19th centu…
Time please
Professional archaeology in Britain has changed out of all recognition over the last 40 years, from an amateur world with a few paid professionals, to a fully professional activity. The changes have come about through different intiatives - popular and bureaucratic - and have led to new organizational structures, new funds, new people and different approaches. Few individuals have bridged this dynamic period as close to the driving seat as Profes…
The management of change: Archaeology and Planning
For over a century there have been arrangements in England for the "scheduling" (i.e. identification for protection) of ancient monuments. Central government consent is required for any works to Scheduled sites or monuments. Essentially sites and monuments have to be of national archaeological significance to merit scheduling; nonstatutory criteria have been defined for that purpose and over 13,000 have so far been scheduled. These represent only…
Saving the Rose
Geoffrey Wainwright, as the senior archaeologist within English Heritage, has been at the centre of the decisions and debates over the future of the Rose Theatre site. He sets out here his view of the issues, and explains why English Heritage adopted a policy of enclosing the site within an open basement of a new office building; thus ensuring its preservation and securing the option of future presentation to the public
Maiden Castle: Excavation, Education, Entertainment
In its developed or final form Maiden Castle, some two miles (3.2 km) south-west of Dorchester in Dorset, is an iron age hillfort, of great complexity, which takes in two knolls of a saddle-backed spur of Upper Chalk, the highest point of which is about 440 ft ( c. 134 m) above OD. The defences enclose47 acres ( c. 18 ha) and consist of three banks and two ditches with an additional bank inserted along most of the south side. There are two entran…
The Excavation of a Durotrigian Farmstead near Tollard Royal in Cranbourne Chase, Southern England
The site whose excavation is here recorded is a small kite-shaped enclosure all but obliterated by ploughing. It is situated (ST (179) 942197; 6-inch sheet ST 91 NW) at the southern tip of a spur known as Berwick Down 1 mile north of the village of Tollard Royal on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset. It is surrounded on its south or downhill side by a semi-circular bank and ditch. The locality has been recently described briefly by H. C. Bowen a…
A Cup-marked Stone from Dan-y-garn, Mynachlog-Ddu, Pembrokeshire, and the Prehistoric Rock-art from Wales
A small panel of mobiliary rock art containing two cup-mark motifs discovered in north Pembrokeshire in August 2002 is described and compared with other finds of rock art from Wales. Although the sites with passage-grave style rock art in north Wales are well-known, the more widespread yet less impressive cup-mark dominated panels found mainly around the upland fringes of the country have received relatively little attention. A provisional corpus…
Honor the Past and Imagine the Future
This paper considers the future for cultural heritage in the new Millennium. It briefly discusses recent developments towards the protection, management, and conservation of archaeological remains and monuments at an international level and of public attitudes towards cultural heritage. The power of certain heritage sites to attract visitors and their indispensible role in the tourist industry is considered, with the current plans for Stonehenge …
The Excavation of the Henge Monument at Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, 1966
The earliest record of the Henge at Durrington Walls, in the parish of Durrington, Wiltshire (SU. 150437) (location map, fig. 1), is that made in the early nineteenth century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1812, p. 169). Today, the bank and ditch of the henge have been largely either ploughed flat or masked by comparatively modern accumulations of plough-soil and there is little to indicate to the casual visitor that these degraded earthworks represe…
A Reinterpretation of the Microlithic Industries of Wales
The distribution of Mesolithic sites in Wales is controlled to a great extent by the terrain, for physiographically, Wales is a highland block defined on three sides by the sea and for the greater part of the fourth side by a sharp break of slope. Geologically the Principality is composed almost entirely of Palaeozoic rocks, of which the 600-foot contour encloses more than three quarters of the total area. There are extensive regions above 1,500 …
Relative and absolute dating of four late Neolithic enclosures: An exercise in the interpretation of radiocarbon determinations
If the fine structure of the carbon-14 deviation curve published by Professor H. E. Suess (in Proceedings of the 12th Nobel Symposium , I. U. Olsson (ed.), 1970) is correct, then the period from c . 2200 bc to c . 1700 bc in radiocarbon years falls within one of the insensitive regions in which carbon-14 determinations could have a number of alternative chronological values and hence could not be used to order archaeological evidence. Without dis…
Three Microlithic Industries from South-west England and their Affinities
The main object of this article is to describe the material from three microlithic sites in south-west England, and to interpret them in the light of present information. Two of the sites are in Somerset, at Shapwick and Middlezoy on the Burtle Beds in the vicinity of Bridgwater, and the third is in Cornwall at Dozmare Pool on Bodmin Moor (fig. 1). Thanks are due to the authorities of the following museums for their kind cooperation: The County M…
A Reinterpretation of the Microlithic Industries of Wales
The distribution of Mesolithic sites in Wales is controlled to a great extent by the terrain, for physiographically, Wales is a highland block defined on three sides by the sea and for the greater part of the fourth side by a sharp break of slope. Geologically the Principality is composed almost entirely of Palaeozoic rocks, of which the 600-foot contour encloses more than three quarters of the total area. There are extensive regions above 1,500 …
The Excavation of the Henge Monument at Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, 1966
The earliest record of the Henge at Durrington Walls, in the parish of Durrington, Wiltshire (SU. 150437) (location map, fig. 1), is that made in the early nineteenth century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1812, p. 169). Today, the bank and ditch of the henge have been largely either ploughed flat or masked by comparatively modern accumulations of plough-soil and there is little to indicate to the casual visitor that these degraded earthworks represe…
Recent Field Research on Problems of Archaeology and Pleistocene Chronology in Peninsular India
Over a century ago Theobald (1860) described the Pleistocene deposits of the middle reaches of the Narmada river and noted the presence of Pleistocene fauna and man-made tools of stone. Eighty years later the Yale-Cambridge expedition in 1935 carried out the first systematic work under the leadership of De Terra and Paterson (1939) whose major concern was with deposits of the glacial and peri-glacial zones. But their brief survey of the Pleistoce…
Durrington Walls: A Ceremonial Enclosure of the 2nd Millennium BC
Durrington Walls lies one quarter of a mile to the north of the outskirts of Amesbury in Wiltshire and 9 miles north of Salisbury (SU 150437). Stonehenge is situated 2 miles to the south-east and 80 yds. to the south of the enclosure is Woodhenge which was excavated by Mrs Cunnington in 1926-8. The much ploughed bank, which encloses a dry valley opening on to the River Avon, was initially recorded by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in the early 19th centu…
The Excavation of a Durotrigian Farmstead near Tollard Royal in Cranbourne Chase, Southern England
The site whose excavation is here recorded is a small kite-shaped enclosure all but obliterated by ploughing. It is situated (ST (179) 942197; 6-inch sheet ST 91 NW) at the southern tip of a spur known as Berwick Down 1 mile north of the village of Tollard Royal on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset. It is surrounded on its south or downhill side by a semi-circular bank and ditch. The locality has been recently described briefly by H. C. Bowen a…
A Review of Henge Monuments in the Light of Recent Research
At the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. there became established in Britain the tradition of constructing ceremonial circles of earth, stone or timber. However, circular enclosures were being built much earlier in the 3rd millennium, which on account of their interrupted ditches have been called causewayed camps. These enclosures are unlikely to have been fortified village sites or cattle pounds as was originally suggested, but the pottery ev…
Excavations at Marden, Wilts., 1969
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The Excavation of a Late Neolithic Enclosure at Marden, Wiltshire
Excavations in 1969 within a 35-acre enclosure at Marden on the north bank of the River Avon in the Vale of Pewsey confirmed its association with the Grooved Ware ceramic style and its superficial resemblances to the Durrington Walls enclosure ten miles downstream. A survey of the enclosure produced an unusual plan bounded by a bank with an internal ditch and on the south side by the River Avon itself, whilst the position of the Hatfield Barrow w…
The Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement on Broome Heath, Ditchingham, Norfolk, England
The excavation of the earthwork and part of the interior of a C-shaped enclosure in south Norfolk produced evidence of a Neolithic occupation from the mid fourth to the late third millennium B.C. The earthwork was constructed at the end of the third millennium B.C. and palaeobotanical analyses of the fossil soil beneath it produced information concerning the environment of the time. Quantities of pot-sherds and stone tools were recorded from the …
Relative and absolute dating of four late Neolithic enclosures: An exercise in the interpretation of radiocarbon determinations
If the fine structure of the carbon-14 deviation curve published by Professor H. E. Suess (in Proceedings of the 12th Nobel Symposium , I. U. Olsson (ed.), 1970) is correct, then the period from c . 2200 bc to c . 1700 bc in radiocarbon years falls within one of the insensitive regions in which carbon-14 determinations could have a number of alternative chronological values and hence could not be used to order archaeological evidence. Without dis…
Ritual shafts and wells: A Neolithic settlement near Norwich
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The Excavation of Prehistoric and Romano-British Settlements at Eaton Heath, Norwich
The excavation in 1971 of an area in excess of 6,500 square metres on Eaton Heath in the south-western suburbs of Norwich, produced evidence for a Neolithic settlement overlaid by ditch systems of the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age and of the 1st century A.D. The earlier occupation was represented by pit groups which produced pottery in the Mildenhall style associated with a radio-carbon determination in the late 4th millennium B.C. and a series of shaf…
The Iron Age settlement of Gussage All Saints. Part I. The settlement
In the parish of Britford SW of Sailisbury are two enclosures which were discovered as the result of a chance aerial photograph. The larger settlement was called Woodbury and to avoid confusion, the smaller settlement 500 m. to the east was named Little Woodlbury. The latter was selected by the Prehistoric Society as the site for a research excavation because its size made feasible a total exploration
Gussage All Saints-a chronology
In order to obtain a good site chronology the radiocarbon measurements must be carried out on samples having a firm archaeological basis and high probability of association with the event or structure the date of which is required. Patently the radiocarbon date can be no better than the sample provided for measurements, and any missassociation at this stage cannot subsequently be rectified. Often discordant radiocarbon dates are explained away by…
Principles of Publication in Rescue Archaeology. Report by a Working Party of the Ancient Monuments Board for England, Committee for Rescue Archaeology. Department of the Environment. October 1975. 16…
Principles of Publication in Rescue Archaeology. Report by a Working Party of the Ancient Monuments Board for England, Committee for Rescue Archaeology. Department of the Environment. October1975. 16pages. Free on request from 23 Savile Row, London W1. - Volume 43
Science and society in prehistoric Britain
The Shaugh Moor Project: First Report
Viewed from the south Devon littoral with its series of good harbours the dark bulk of Dartmoor is clearly visible across the flat coastal plain. It is the largest of the five granite masses that provide a spine to the south-west English peninsula (Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, Hensbarrow, Carnmenellis and Penwith) that were formed by the consolidation of molten material. The 500 square kilometres of the Moor form an undulating upland up to 600 m OD on …
The Shaugh Moor Project: Second Report—The Enclosure
The Shaugh Moor project is concerned with an area of moorland in south Dartmoor north-east and north respectively of the villages of Shaugh Prior and Wotter (fig. 1). The physical threat to the evidence for settlement and land-use caused by the operations of the China Clay industry involved the Central Excavation Unit of the Department of the Environment from 1976 in a programme of survey, excavation and environmental studies related to the settl…
The Shaugh Moor Project: Third Report—Settlement and Environmental Investigations
The third phase of the Shaugh Moor Project comprised survey and excavation work on the Saddlesborough Main reave and Wotter Common (fig. 1). Following the decision of the china clay companies not to develop the area immediately around Saddlesborough (Area Y), Watts, Blake and Bearne & Co Ltd and English China Clays Ltd embarked upon a joint tipping programme which will eventually destroy the terminal reave east of Saddlesborough and most of the m…
The Shaugh Moor Project: Fourth Report — Environment, Context and Conclusion
For five years from 1976 to 1980 the archaeology and environment of a block of landscape centred around Shaugh Moor on south-west Dartmoor were analysed prior to the destruction of some of the evidence by china clay working. The investigations began in 1976 with a survey of the field monuments and the initiation of soil, vegetation, small mammal and phosphate studies in addition to the search for peat deposits of sufficient antiquity. From 1977 t…
A Church to Believe In: Discipleship and the Dynamics of Freedom
The Pressure of the Past: Presidential Address
Fifty years ago on 17 February 1934 the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia held its annual business meeting in Norwich. Professor Breuil was elected President for that year, Professor Miles Burkitt as Vice-President and Dr J. G. D. Clark as Honorary Editor. Other elections at that meeting included Mr Stuart Piggott to Council and O. G. S. Crawford to membership of the Society. It had been founded in 1908 when on 17 October a circular had been iss…
Theological Table-Talk: Liturgy and Poetry
Maiden Castle: Excavation, Education, Entertainment
In its developed or final form Maiden Castle, some two miles (3.2 km) south-west of Dorchester in Dorset, is an iron age hillfort, of great complexity, which takes in two knolls of a saddle-backed spur of Upper Chalk, the highest point of which is about 440 ft ( c. 134 m) above OD. The defences enclose47 acres ( c. 18 ha) and consist of three banks and two ditches with an additional bank inserted along most of the south side. There are two entran…
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