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Amanda Chadburn 🏺
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As I said elsewhere, this stretches credulity. It’s not an especially big stone, & could have been transported entirely by human agency. Ice took it to Doggerland in deep prehistory & then people took it to Norfolk by 7000BC, then others to Stonehenge in 2500BC??
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Time flies! It's ten years exactly since I embarked on this long and enjoyable project with Steven Brindle to produce new visual reconstructions of Windsor Castle for his great book charting its thousand-year history. Here are some images of my developing model of the castle during the 1216 siege.
Today is the Antiquarian John Aubrey's 400th Birthday! Born in 1626, John Aubrey has been described at Britain's First "Archaeologist"
Read about his story and his connection to Wiltshire here at: www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/john-aubrey-...
Delighted to see this @vch-home.bsky.social partnership publication on Chippenham is to be launched next month. The third partnership book developed from @wiltshistory.bsky.social research on the town and the surrounding area, created in collaboration with local communities.
Loves old stuff especially:
*Archaeology* Heritage Management* *Landscape *Prehistory* World Heritage *Archaeoastronomy *IA Coins*
*Respons.Detecting *Heritage Crime*