Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury Henge and Stones, Avebury Stone Circles, Avebury Outer Circle, Avebury Outer Stone Circle Extant Stones
Avebury Outer Stone Circle Extant Stones is in Avebury Outer Circle.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury Henge and Stones, Avebury Stone Circles, Avebury Outer Stone Circle Extant Stones, Avebury Outer Circle Stone [Map]
Taking the Centre of the Henge as where the lines between the entrances cross then a line drawn from the Centre to the extant stone [Map] in the north-east quadant is aligned to the Midwinter Sunset and Midsummer Sunrise - the magenta line on the Schematic.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury Henge and Stones, Avebury Stone Circles, Avebury Outer Stone Circle Extant Stones, Avebury Outer Circle Stone 6 [Map]
Keiller's Slides TR000085. 1938. General view of the re-erection of stone 6 [Map] in the south west sector of the henge at Avebury.
Keiller's Slides TR000083. 1938. General view of the re-erection of stone 6 [Map] in the south west sector of the henge at Avebury, showing the use of pullys.
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Keiller's Slides TR000126. 1938. General view of the re-erection of stone 9 [Map] in the south west sector of the henge at Avebury, with a figure in the foreground
Keiller's Slides TR000034. 1938. General view of the skull of the Barber Surgeon in situ during the excavation of stone 9 [Map] in the south west sector of the henge at Avebury
Antiquity 1939 Volume 13 Pages 223-233. During the excavation of the buried Stone 16 [Map], a complete skeleton was found within the narrow space between the stone and the only unfinished part of the side of the burial-pit. It is evident that the remains were those of an individual who had been accidentally killed while engaged in completing the pit for the burial of the stone, which had apparently slipped or fallen owing to a support giving way, fracturing the victim’s pelvis, and also breaking his neck. The right foot was wedged beneath the fallen stone and it had consequently been impossible at the time of death to remove the corpse. It had therefore been covered over and the pit containing stone and body filled in. The date of the occurrence, and the burial of the stone, could be accurately fixed to within a few years by the discovery near the man’s left hip of a discoloured patch of soil, doubtless representing the remains of a leather pouch, upon which lay thrce coins; two silver pennies of Edward I, minted at Canterbury in 1307, and a sterling of the City of Toul. Other finds beside the skeleton included a pair of pointed scissors, which were from their form definitely those rather of a barber than a tailor, and a small iron object, with the vestigial remains of a wooden handle, which had apparently been a lancet or probe. These objects were found beside the left thigh. The discovery of a pair of scissors in England accurately identifiable to so early a date as the first quarter of the fourteenth century A.D. is interesting.
In passing it may be remarked that the generally accepted explanation that is in order to facilitate agriculture-for the burial of so many of the stones at Avebury cannot, on other grounds than the employment of a barber for the task, be regarded as adequate, at any rate so far as the northwest and southeast sectors are concerned.
The skeleton has been accepted by the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, while the associated finds are housed in the Museum of the Morven Institute at Avebury.
Keiller's Slides TR000003. General view of the excavation of stone 9 [Map] in the south west sector of the henge at Avebury
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury Henge and Stones, Avebury Stone Circles, Avebury Outer Stone Circle Extant Stones, Avebury Outer Circle Stone SW17 [Map]
Antiquity 1939 Volume 13 Pages 223-233. The standing Stone no. 17 [Map] was excavated to its base, and was proved to have slipped accidentally during erection, much in the same way as had Stone no. 14 of the northwest sector, which accounted for its present position being oblique to the arc of the circle. In this case certain of the anti-friction stakes had been broken by the accident, remains of carbonized wood being found for the first time in the stake-holes.
