Archaeology in the Avebury Area, Wiltshire: Recent Discoveries Along the Line of the Kennet Valley Foul Sewer Pipeline, 1993
Andrew B. Powell, Michael J. Allen & I Barnes
Description
The replacement of a 4 km of sewer pipeline in the Avebury landscape demonstrated the high potential of the area, not just for the ritual and mortuary monuments of the Neolithic and Bronze Age for which Avebury is famous, but also the archaeology of other periods.
This report combines the findings of the watching brief undertaken during the engineering works, with the results of earlier desk-based research, air photographic, and geophysical surveys.
The earliest features cut by the pipe trench were three Bronze Age round barrow ring-ditches, one in the Beckhampton barrow cemetery, and two in dispersed locations.
Evidence for an extensive Romano-British settlement along the east bank of the Winterbourne, south of Avebury, was discovered adding to the Romano-British material known from around Silbury Hill.
Previously recorded evidence of medieval settlements south-west of Avebury was added to by the recording of medieval features of 12th–14th century date in Butler's Field.
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| Jan. 1, 1996 | Wessex Archaeology | 112 | 1-874350-15-9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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