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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
William Hawley 1851-1941 is in Archaeologists.
Between 3000BC and 1500BC. Stonehenge Phase 1 Aubrey Holes are fifty-six pits 1m in diameter known as the Aubrey Holes after John Aubrey who first identified them. It isn't known whether the pits held posts or stones or neither.
The date for these holes, and consequently where they fit into the order of the wide monument is very vague. Excavation indicates Sarsen stone chips are found only in the upper layers suggesting the Aubrey holes pre-date the Sarsens.
The pits originally contained the 50,000 cremated bone fragments of sixty-three individuals which were excavated in 1920 by William Hawley who re-interred them in a single pit; Aubrey Hole 7.
In 2013 a team led by Mike Parker Pearson (age 55) analysed the remains finding the individuals were equally male and female, including children, originally from south-west wales, the source of the Stonehenge Bluestones, and had not lived in the Stonehenge area for long before death. Evidence of chalk crushing at the base of the pits is believed to indicate the pits once contained the Stonehenge Bluestones as grave markers.
In 1851 William Hawley was born.
In 1941 William Hawley (age 90) died.