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The Excavation of two additional holes at Stonehenge, 1950, and new evidence for the date of the Monument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

R. J. C. Atkinson ,
Stuart Piggott  and
J. F. S. Stone
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Among the most remarkable discoveries made in the course of the Society's excavations at Stonehenge in 1919–26 was the discovery of a series of small pits set in a circle immediately within the bank of the surrounding earthwork. Some of these had left slight surface depressions which had been recorded by John Aubrey on his plan of Stonehenge made in 1666, and the pits were appropriately named the Aubrey Holes in recognition of this sound piece of field observation by a pioneer antiquary.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 32 , Issue 1-2 , April 1952 , pp. 14 - 20
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1952

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page 14 note 1 Antiq. Journ. i (1921), 19Google Scholar; ii (1922), 36; iii (1923), 13; iv (1924), 30; v (1925), 21; vi (1926), 1; viii (1928), 149.

page 14 note 2 Ibid. i (1921), 30.

page 14 note 3 Ibid. iii (1923), 17.

page 14 note 4 Ibid. viii (1928), 158, 174.

page 15 note 1 Antiquity, iii (1929), 75Google Scholar; Wilts. Arch. Mag. xliv (1927–1929), 348Google Scholar.

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page 15 note 3 Atkinson, , Piggott, C. M., and Sandars, ,Excavations at Dorchester, Oxon. Part I (Ashmolean Museum 1951)Google Scholar. Pro. Soc. Ant. Scot. lxxxii (1947-1948), 68Google Scholar.

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page 19 note 1 In addition to the published details in the interim excavation reports (p.14, n. 1), drawings and notes on the Aubrey Holes have been deposited (with other matter relating to the 1919-26 excavations) by Mr. R. S. Newall in the Salisbury and South Wilts. Museum.

page 19 note 2 e.g. Zeuner, in Nature, 4 Nov. 1950Google Scholar; Science Progress, Apr. 1951.