Excavating the CA Archives – Wiltshire II
03-05-2024 13:48 via archaeology.co.uk

Excavating the CA Archives – Wiltshire II

Excavating around Salisbury PlainLast month I began a tour around the final county of the UK that I had yet to visit in these pages: Wiltshire. I began in the north and headed south as far as the Vale of Pewsey. This month I will continue into what is popularly seen as the most fertile of all archaeological hunting grounds, the county’s central belt around Salisbury Plain. I will devote future columns specifically to Stonehenge and Avebury, so we will pass through these on this occasion i
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