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The Excavation of the Henge Monument at Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, 1966

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

G. J. Wainwright
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The earliest record of the Henge at Durrington Walls, in the parish of Durrington, Wiltshire (SU. 150437) (location map, fig. 1), is that made in the early nineteenth century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1812, p. 169). Today, the bank and ditch of the henge have been largely either ploughed flat or masked by comparatively modern accumulations of plough-soil and there is little to indicate to the casual visitor that these degraded earthworks represent all that is left of the largest henge monument in Britain.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , September 1967 , pp. 167 - 184
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1967

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