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Some Grooved Ware Pottery from the Woodhenge area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

J. F. S. Stone
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In a recent article a description was given of the contents of two pits found by Mr A. St. J. Booth in his garden at Woodlands, Countess Road, Amesbury within 300 yards of the centre of Woodhenge. These pits produced a remarkable assemblage of objects of neolithic B Grooved Ware type, and the apparent care which had been expended upon their deliberate burial induced the suggestion that they represented the sacred or hallowed relics of feasts held in connexion with rites at Woodhenge itself.

Deliberately buried deposits of this type in the vicinity of the monument suggested further that many other pits might exist in the neighbourhood of this and other comparable sites. No surprise was therefore felt when Mr Booth reported the discovery of two more pits of similar character within a few feet of the first two. These were examined during June 1948.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 15 , 1949 , pp. 122 - 127
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1949

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