Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury [Map]
Avebury, Wiltshire is in Wiltshire.
Calendars. 16 Sep 1547. Lieghes. In fulfilment of Henry VIII.'s will and a tripartite indenture between the king of the first part, the Protector and the other executors (named) of the said will of the second part, and William Sharyngton (age 52), knight, of the third part, dated 22 Oct. 1 Edward VI.; and for £2,8081 4s. 101d. paid in the Augmentations by the said William; and in consideration of that whole part (55 ac.) of the wood called Hamfrith Wood, sometime belonging to Anthony Hungerford (age 56), knight, in the parishes of Estham and Westham, Essex, and of that waste land (16. ac.) there which belonged to the same, lying on the west next the wood of the king and the said Anthony and on the east next land of the manor of Little Ilforde and on the south next the common way between London and Romeforde, granted to the king by the said Anthony at the request of the said Sharyngton, who has satisfied and recompensed him for it. Grant to the said William Sharyngton of the manors of Awberye [Map], Wynterborne and Charleton, Wilts, late of the college of Fotherynghey [Map], Ntht. [Northamptonshire], the farm called Barbury Leez in Okeborne parish, Wilts, late of the same college, and all the lands known as Barbury Leez there, and all the lands in Awbery [Map], Helmerton, Wynterborne, Charleton and Barburye, Wilts, which the king's father [had] by gift of the master and college of Fotherynghey; also the manor of Hatherup, Glouc., the advowson of the rectory of Hatherup, and the yearly pension of 6s. 8d. from the rector of Hatherupp, late of Lacock monastery, Wilts; also the manor of Lye alias Ligh alias Leigh beside (prope) Asheton Keyns, Wilts, and all the lands in the several tenures of Henry Cave, Thomas Wake, John Messenger, Richard Webbyng, John Awncell, William Kebull, John Cull, John Knyght, Thomas Woodwarde, John Wake, Thomas Shurmore, Robert Shurmore, John Messanger, Maud Leche, widow, Robert Surman, Robert Wake, John Hamonde, John Brokeman, John Leche, William Maubz, Nicholas Bowdon, Richard Leche, John Knyght, John Davys alias Fawkener, Thomas Browne, Edward Tyndale, Robert Cowley, Edmund Dorrell, Robert Baylorde, Richard Webyng, John Wake, Robert Keylowe, John Bonde, William Rede, Thomas Packer, the son of Maud Hideman, John Iles, Joan Bithewood, John Cowley [and] John Wylkyns, customary tenants of Assheton Keyns, or Thomas Cryppes and Agnes his wife, in the parish of Assheton Keyns, late of Tewkesbury monastery.
Also grant of the manor of Pokebroke, Ntht. [Northamptonshire], late of Peterborough abbey, the advowson of the rectory of Polebroke alias Pokebroke, all the lands there in tenure of Robert Ball, the yearly pension or portion of 20s. out of that rectory and all lands and liberties (long list) in Polebroke alias Pokebroke, Armeston, Kyngesthropp and Lutton, Ntht. [Northamptonshire], pertaining to the said manor, all which belonged to the same abbey.
Also grant of the toft and land in Polebroke alias Pokebroke in tenure of Richard Henson late of the priory or hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and all other possessions of that priory there; the site, mansion and capital messuage of the late hospital or chantry of St. John Baptist in Armeston within Polebroke parish and all kinds of [m. 44.) lands and liberties (long list) in Armeston, Kyngesthroppe, Thurmyng, Warmyngton, Polebroke alias Polebroke and Barnewell, Ntht. [Northamptonshire], which belonged to that hospital or chantry.
Except advowsons other than those aforesaid of Hatherupp and Polebroke.
To hold to the said William Sharyngton, his heirs and assigns of the king in chief by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee; rendering yearly for Awbery £5. 6s. 64d., Wynterbourne 14s., Charleton 508., Barbury Leez 26s., Hatherupp 33s. 6¾d., and Ley 44s. 1d.
Exoneration; except 13s. 4d. yearly paid to Christopher Temse, collector of rents of Hatherupp manor, for his fee. Issues since Annunciation last. These letters without fine or fee.
By p.s. (II. 886. Hampton Court, 18 July. Slightly injured.)
In 1640 William Dunch sold the manor of Avebury, Wiltshire [Map] to John Stawell (age 39). Ralph's estates were sequestered after the Civil War and sold to George Long. Ralph recovered the estates at the Restoration. Ralph's son George inherited the manor in 1662. When George died in 1669 his brother Ralph Stawell 1st Baron Stawell inherited the manor. Ralph died in 1689 and his son John Stawell 2nd Baron Stawell inherited the manor. He died three years later at which time the manor was sold to Richard Holford.
Pepy's Diary. 15 Jun 1668. So to our inne, and there eat and paid reckoning, £1 8s. 6d.; servants, 3s.; poor, 1s.; lent the coach man, 10s. Before I took coach, I went to make a boy dive in the King's bath, 1s. I paid also for my coach and a horse to Bristol, £1 1s. 6d. Took coach, and away, without any of the company of the other stage-coaches, that go out of this town to-day; and rode all day with some trouble, for fear of being out of our way, over the Downes, where the life of the shepherds is, in fair weather only, pretty. In the afternoon come to Abebury [Map], where, seeing great stones like those of Stonage standing up, I stopped, and took a countryman of that town, and he carried me and shewed me a place trenched in, like Old Sarum almost, with great stones pitched in it, some bigger than those at Stonage in figure, to my great admiration: and he told me that most people of learning, coming by, do come and view them, and that the King (age 38) did so: and that the Mount cast hard by is called Selbury [Map], from one King Seall buried there, as tradition says. I did give this man 1s.
The London Gazette 27156. Whitehall, January 22, 1900. The Queen (age 80) has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto the Right Honourable Sir John Lubbock (age 65), of Lamas [Map], in the county of Norfolk, High Elms [Map], in the county of Kent, and Avebury [Map], in the county of Wilts, Bart, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Avebury, of Avebury, in the county of Wilts.
Note. Alice Lane Fox-Pitt Baroness Avebury (age 38) by marriage Baroness Avebury of Avebury in Wiltshire.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury Manor [Map]
In 1640 the Dunch family sold Avebury Manor, Wiltshire [Map] to John Stawell (age 39)
In 1646 Avebury Manor, Wiltshire [Map] was sequestered when John Stawell (age 45) was accused of treason. It was sold to George Long in 1652 but restored to Stawell in 1660 on his release from the Tower of London.
After 1914 Captain Leopold Jenner (age 44) lived at Avebury Manor, Wiltshire [Map].
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury, Horslip Long Barrow [Map]
Horslip Long Barrow is also in Avebury Long Barrows North.
Horslip Long Barrow [Map]. Historic England 1008449
Horslip long barrow is a Neolithic burial mound situated on a south-facing spur of Windmill Hill with views towards Beckhampton c.1.5km to the south, across a culverted former tributary of the River Kennet. The mound is aligned north-west - south-east and measures 58m long, up to 34m wide and stands 0.6m high. The mound was constructed of chalk and earth with wattle fences used to add stability to the structure and to guide the dumping of construction materials. To each side of the mound are quarry ditches c.60m in length and c.5m wide located c.6m out from the edge of the barrow mound. These ditches have become infilled over the years but survive as features below the present ground surface. The barrow was partially excavated by Ashbee and Smith in 1959 and finds included flint implements as well as Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery in the fill of the ditches. The excavations also showed that the mound preserved evidence of the earlier land-use of the site including a series of pits.
Avebury by William Stukeley. By Horslip-gap is another considerable long barrow [Map] of a large bulk, length and height: it regards the snake's head temple, tho' here not in sight.
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury, South Street Long Barrow [Map]
South Street Long Barrow is also in Avebury Long Barrows North.
South Street Long Barrow [Map]. Historic England 1008103.
The monument includes a Neolithic Long Barrow 70m south east of the Long Stones Cove aka Devil's Quoits [Map] standing stones and c.300m north east of the Long Stones long barrow, a contemporary funerary monument. The South Street long barrow, despite having been reduced by cultivation and partly excavated, survives as a slight earthwork visible at ground level. The barrow mound is aligned ESE-WNW and is known from excavation to measure 43m in length and 17m across. However, the mound has been spread by cultivation and now measures 64m in length and 43m across. Partial excavation has shown that the mound was constructed of chalk rubble tipped into a series of forty bays, created by the laying out of hurdle fences to mark out the site immediately prior to construction. This building method provided stability to the mound and guided the workforce in deciding where to dump the material quarried from two parallel flanking ditches. These ditches are located c.7m from the base of the mound on both sides and measure c.55m long and c.7m wide. The ditches have been gradually infilled by cultivation over the years but survive as buried features beneath the present ground surface. Radio-carbon dating of some of the finds from the later excavation date the construction of the mound to around 2750BC, making the monument over 4000 years old. Finds from the excavation included flint arrowheads, animal bones and fragments of pottery. Below the barrow mound evidence of early ploughing was discovered, taking the form of lines of cross-ploughing incised into the chalk.
Carbon Date. 2760BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Charcoal on buried soil surface under mound at South Street [Map], Avebury, Wiltshire, England.
ID: 4342, C14 ID: BM-356 Date BP: 4760 +/- 130, Start Date BP: 4630, End BP: 4890
OS Letter: SU, OS East: 90, OS North: 692
Archaeologist Name: J G Evans
Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 13, 1971, 171-2; Antiquity, 42, 1968, 138-42; Antiquity, 43, 1969, 144-5
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 2700BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as Bos sp, on ditch bottom in coarse chalk primary fill at South Street [Map], Avebury, Wiltshire, England. Comment (lab): collagen fraction used
ID: 4343, C14 ID: BM-357 Date BP: 4700 +/- 135, Start Date BP: 4565, End BP: 4835
OS Letter: SU, OS East: 90, OS North: 692
Archaeologist Name: J G Evans
Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 13, 1971, 171-2; Antiquity, 42, 1968, 138-42; Antiquity, 43, 1969, 144-5
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 2620BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Antler on ditch bottom in coarse chalk primary fill at South Street [Map], Avebury, Wiltshire, England. Comment (lab): Collagen fraction used
ID: 4344, C14 ID: BM-358a Date BP: 4620 +/- 140, Start Date BP: 4480, End BP: 4760
OS Letter: SU, OS East: 90, OS North: 692
Archaeologist Name: J G Evans
Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 13, 1971, 171-2; Antiquity, 42, 1968, 138-42; Antiquity, 43, 1969, 144-5
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 2530BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates
Report: Antler embedded in mound at South Street [Map], Avebury, Wiltshire, England. Comment (lab): Collagen fraction used
ID: 4345, C14 ID: BM-358b Date BP: 4530 +/- 110, Start Date BP: 4420, End BP: 4640
OS Letter: SU, OS East: 90, OS North: 692
Archaeologist Name: J G Evans
Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 13, 1971, 171-2; Antiquity, 42, 1968, 138-42; Antiquity, 43, 1969, 144-5
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury, St James' Church [Map]
Life of William Morris. Another schoolboy letter to his eldest sister, written when he had been a year at Marlborough, shows the threads of fresh interest that were beginning to mingle in his life.
April 13th, 1849.
"My dearest Emma,
"I received your dear letter yesterday and I am glad you liked the anthem on Easter Tuesday, we here had the same anthem on Monday and Tuesday as on Sunday it was the three first verses of the 72nd Psalm [Note. Psalm 76] , In Jewry is God known, his name is great in Israel. At Salem is his tabernacle, and his dwelling at Sion. There brake he the arrows of the bow, the sword, the shield, and the battle. I certainly thought it was very beautiful though I have never heard it in Cathedral and like you could not tell how they would sing it there; but a gentleman (one of the boy's fathers) said on the whole our choir sang better than at Salisbury Cathedral; anyhow I thought it very beautiful the first verse was sung by the whole the second began by one treble voice till at last the base took it up again gradually getting deeper and deeper then again the treble voice again and then again the base the third verse was sung entirely by base not very loud but with that kind of emphasis which you would think befitting to such a subject I almost think I liked it better than either of the other two the only fault in the anthem seemed to be to me that it was too short. On Monday I went to Silbury Hill [Map] which I think I have told you before is an artificial hill made by the Britons but first I went to a place called Abury where there is a Druidical circle and a Roman entrenchment both which encircle the town originally it is supposed that the stones were in this shape first one large circle then a smaller one inside this and then one in the middle for an altar but a great many in fa6l most of the stones have been removed so I could [not] tell this. On Tuesday morning I was told of this so I thought I would go there again, I did and then I was able to understand how they had been fixed; I think the biggest stone I could see had about 16 feet out of the ground in height and about 10 feet thick and 12 feet broad the circle and entrenchment altogether is about half a mile; at Abury I also saw a very old church [Map] the tower was very pretty indeed it had four little spires on it of the decorated order, and there was a little Porch and inside the porch a beautiful Norman doorway loaded with mouldings the chancel was new and was paved with tesselated pavement this I saw through the Window for I did not know where the sexton's house was so of course I could not get the key, there was a pretty little Parsonage house close by the church. After we had done looking at the lions of Abury which took us about ½ an hour we went through a mud lane down one or two fields and last but not least through what they call here a water meadow up to our knees in water, now perhaps you do not know what a water meadow is as there are none of them in your part of the world, so for your edification I will tell you what a delegable affair a water meadow is to go through; in the first place you must fancy a field cut through with an infinity of small streams say about four feet wide each the people to whom the meadow belongs can turn these streams on and off when they like and at this time of the year they are on just before they put the fields up for mowing the grass being very long you cannot see the water till you are in the water and floundering in it except you are above the field luckily the water had not been long when we went through it else we should have been up to our middles in mud, however perhaps now you can imagine a water meadow: after we had scrambled through this meadow we ascended Silbury Hill it is not very high but yet I should think it must have taken an immense long time to have got it together I brought away a little white snail shell as a memento of the place and have got it in my pocket book I came back at ½ past 5 the distance was altogether about 14 miles I had been out 3 hours ½ of course Monday and Tuesday were whole holidays. As [you] are going to send me the cheese perhaps you would let Sarah to make me a good large cake and I should also like some biscuits and will you also send me some paper and postage stamps also my silkworms eggs and if you could get it an Italian pen box for that big box is too big for school. I am very sorry I was not at home with you at Easter but of course that was not to be and it is no good either to you or to me to say any horrid stale arguments about being obliged to go to school for of course we know all about that. Give my best love dearest Emma to all,
" And believe me
"Your most affectionate brother
"William Morris."
Europe, British Isles, South-West England, Wiltshire, Avebury, Temple Bottom Long Barrow [Map]
Temple Bottom Long Barrow is also in Avebury Long Barrows North.
Temple Bottom Long Barrow [Map]. Now destroyed. Exact location uncertain. Excavated by Lukis in 1861.
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Ovoid-shaped muller or rubber, made from Sarsen stone with signs of use, found with burnt and unburnt bones and some pottery fragments, from the Neolithic period, found at Ogbourne St Andrew, Wiltshire in March 1861.
Heavy muller or rubber, made from Sarsen stone with signs of use, found with burnt and unburnt bones and some pottery fragments, from the Neolithic period, found at Ogbourne St Andrew, Wiltshire in June 1861.
Polished bone chisel found with burnt and unburnt bones and some pottery outside the chambered long barrow at Temple Bottom, Ogbourne St Andrew, Wiltshire, March 1861.