Keiller Collection Photos. 1908. West Kennet Avenue. Probably Florence Harriet Young (age 32).

1911. Census. [her husband] Harold St George Gray (age 38), Florence Harriet Young (age 35) and [her son] Lionel St George Gray (age 9) at Castle House, Taunton.

Keiller Collection Photos. May 1911. Two figures, thought to be Harold Gray's (age 39) wife Florence (age 35) and their son [her son] Lionel (age 10), with two stones of Avebury’s Northern Inner Circle.

Keiller Collection Photos. Apr 1914. A photo of Avebury’s bank and ditch. The figures on the bank are thought to be Harold Gray's (age 42) wife Florence Harriet Young (age 38) and their son [her son] Lionel St George Gray (age 13).

Archaeologia Volume 84 1935 Section VI. 28 Apr 1914. Plate XXXI. Fig. 2. The E. and SE. earthworks at Avebury, looking NE. With Florence Harriet Young (age 38) and [her son] Lionel St George Gray (age 13).

Diary of WEV Young. 23 Sep 1930. Pages 129-131.

[her husband] Mr Gray (age 58) called me into the hut at five o’clock and paid me off, remarking as he did so that funds this time were very short (I hope he will get enough for his own “honorarium”). Mrs Gray (age 55) also joined in with a few well chosen remarks, plainly intended for my edification, although addressed to her spouse – “Really dear: I cannot keep on making up the expenses of the excavations, my purse will not allow it. I had to make up five pounds for the Ham Hill work.” … In the presence of Sir Joseph and Lady Bowley, I listened meekly to all this … behaving myself with that gruelling humility one should do, in the presence of their superiors, then touching my ragged cap I backed away, and took my leave.

Archaeologia Volume 84 1935 Section VI. With one exception the other ‘finds’ in the chalk rubble were of little value as evidence of date. But that exception was an important one, viz. the finding of nine red deer antler picks (nos. 89, 90, 91, 94, 95, 131, 133, 135, and 136), for the most part fractured and incomplete, but capable of considerable repair,¹ resting on the solid chalk floor of the fosse—thrown away when they became useless as tools (pl. XXXVI, fig. 1, and p. 150). Some of these picks proved to be excellent specimens, and nos. 89, 90, 133, 135, and 136 are figured in pls. XLVII and XLVIII. It is difficult to realize how this stupendous fosse was excavated out of the solid chalk by means of antler picks only. There can be no doubt that the hardest chalk must have been loosened, at least to some extent, by the blows ol flint hammers and mauls. The other appliances used in this work would probably be wooden and bone shovels, and baskets and ropes to haul the chalk to the surface. Close to the bottom a fragmentary shoulder-blade bone was found in a very bad state of preservation, and it was uncertain whether it had been used as a shovel.²

Note 1. All the picks and other antler and bone implements found in the Avebury excavations were restored by Mrs. St. George Gray (age 58).

Note 2. Three bone shovels, described on pp. 115-116, were found at the bottom of the fosse in Cutting II.