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The Excavation of the West Kennet Long Barrow: 1955–6

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stuart Piggott
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Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 128 , December 1958 , pp. 235 - 242
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1958

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References

1 G. E. Daniel, Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales (1950), 227, with refs.

2 Report by Professor W. J. Arkell, Sidgwick Museum, Cambridge. Thurnam records a whetstone from the secondary filling made of Pennant Sandstone from the valley of the Bristol Avon.

3 The human remains have been reported on by Professor L. H. Wells, formerly of the University of Edinburgh and now of the University of Cape Town.

4 Illustrated in J. F. S. Stone, Wessex Before the Celts (1958), pl. 14. Other illustrations of West Kennet are in pls. 6-8.

5 In an unpublished thesis.

6 G. E. Daniel, Proc. Prehist. Soc., V (1939), 143.

7 S. Piggott, Neo. Cultures Brit. Isles (1954), fig. 25: contrast the Cotswold plans in fig. 20.

8 Wilts. Arch. Mag., Lll (1947), 57, where I suggested that such tombs might ‘stand nearer to the main stream of ideas in tomb architecture than the rather specialized forms of the Cotswolds’. West Kennet now provides welcome confirmation of this view.

* (Of which a preliminary note appears on p. 268.)

9 E. M. Clifford, Arch., LXXXVI (1937), 119; ibid., Proc. Prehist. Soc., IV (1938), 188 ; S. Piggott and T. G. E. Powell, Proc. Soc. Ant. Soct., LXXXIII (1948-9), 103.

10 H. N. Savory, Arch. Camb., 1956, 7.

11 W. F. Grimes, Proc. Prehist. Soc., V (1939), 119.

12 O. Davies and T. G. F. Paterson, Proc. Belfast Nat. Hist, and Phil. Soc., 2nd S., I, pt. ii (1936-7), 30. T. H. Bryce, Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., XXXVII (1902-3), 36.

13 J. G. Scott, Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., LXXXIX (1955-6), 22.

14 I am indebted to Dr Kaelas for allowing me to see the proofs of a paper to be published in Offa where this subject is discussed.

15 The finds from the 1955-6 excavations at West Kennet will be deposited in the Museum of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society at Devizes ; some restored pottery is at present on exhibition in the City Museum, Birmingham.