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A Rectangular Earthwork Enclosure at Tisbury, Wilts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

P. J. Fowler
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Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 148 , December 1963 , pp. 290 - 293
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1963

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(1) Salway, P., Procs. Durham Univ. Phil. Soc. I, ser. B, no. 5 (1959), 42-8Google Scholar; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), A Matter of Time (1960); Jobey, G., Arch. Ael., xxxviii, 4th ser. (1960), 1–38 andxxxrx (1961), 87-102Google Scholar; Cotton, M. A., Berks. Arch. J., 59 (1961), 1–35 Google Scholar; Decker, and Scollar, , Antiquity (1962), 175-8CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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(3) Robertson, op. cit., 246-8.

(4) Wilton has now been admirably treated in V.C.H. Wilts., VI (1962), 1 ff.Google Scholar; Tisbury still awaits its historian, though referred to usefully in V.C.H. Wilts., II (1955)Google Scholar.

(5) The excavation was carried out by members of the Salisbury Museum Research Committee, under J. W. G. Musty, to whom I am grateful for permission to use this information and for help in excavating at Tisbury a few weeks earlier.

(6) 500 hides, giving a theoretical circumference of 687 yds. The circumference of the enclosure is about 350 yds.

(7) Everard, and Hoare, , Modern Wilts., The Hundred of Dunworth (1829), 134 Google Scholar; P.N. Wilts. (1939), 196.

(8) NGR: ST/94152861; R.A.F. vertical air photographs CPE/UK 1811, 1112-3. I am grateful to my wife and Miss E. Dowman for help with the survey, and to Mr and Mrs Cary of Wick Farm for their kindness and co-operation.

(9) As shown on Andrews’, and Dury's, Map of Wiltshire (1773), published by the Wilts. Arch. Soc. Records Branch, vol. VII (1952)Google Scholar.

(10) E.g. Allcroft, H., Earthwork of England (1908), 379–614 Google Scholar; the Curwens, in Sussex, Arch. Colls., LXLV (1923), 1–65 Google Scholar; Crawford, and Keiller, , Wessex from the Air (1928), 234, 238 and 242 Google Scholar.

(11) NGR: SU/134733. V.C.H.|Wilts, 1, i (1957), 268, no. 185Google Scholar; W.A.M., XXXVIII (1913), 309 Google Scholar. About 2½ acres.

(12) Respectively at NGR: SY/679935 and SY/802962. Both are likely to be medieval, but are situated on ground sloping down to a stream. Both have been investigated by R.C.H.M. (Eng.), and will appear in a forthcoming Dorset volume.

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(14) Jobey (1961), n. I.

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(17) Piggott, S., P.P.S., II (1936), 229-30. About ½ acreGoogle Scholar.

(18) Cunnington, M., W.A.M., xxxvi (1910), 590-8Google Scholar; V.C.H. Wilts., 1, i (1957). 262, no. 42. About 9 acresGoogle Scholar. Piggott, S., P.P.S., II (1936), 229-30. About ½ acreGoogle Scholar.

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