Heelstone Ditch
51°10′44″N 1°50′02″W / 51.178858°N 1.833772°W
Heelstone Ditch is a roughly circular feature surrounding the
arcing trench found in 1923 by Lt-Col William Hawley
9 ft (2.7m) wide cuts this ditch from the West, deepening towards the stone. Against the Heelstone Ditch (inside circle) is rammed chalk filled Stonehole 97, whose missing stone is known as Heelstone's twin although it is possible that the stone in Stonehole 97 was moved and is now the stone known as the Heelstone. The ditch was probably dug after the stone in Stonehole 97 was moved but possibly before that.
Only a small part of the Heelstone Ditch, immediately behind the
Highways Agency A344 roadside fence, now remains unexplored or undisturbed. General nature of the ditch and fill described in 1979 by Michael W. Pitts, et al. [1], compares well with Hawley's (1923, 1925).[citation needed
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References
- ISBN 978-1-85074-605-8.
- Atkinson, R J C, Stonehenge (Penguin Books, 1956)
- Pitts, M W, On the Road to Stonehenge: Report on Investigations beside the A344 in 1968, 1979 and 1980 (Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 48, 1982)
- Hawley, Lt-Col W, Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1923 (The Antiquaries Journal 5, Oxford University Press, 1925)
Further reading
- Cunliffe, B, & Renfrew, C, Science and Stonehenge (The British Academy 92, Oxford University Press 1997)
- Newall, R S, Stonehenge, Wiltshire (Ancient monuments and historic buildings) (Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1959)
- Pitts, M, Hengeworld (Arrow, London, 2001)
- Stone, J F S, Wessex Before the Celts (Frederick A Praeger Publishers, 1958)
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