Complete History of Stonehenge Excavations    
      
   1611. King James I investigated Stonehenge "to see 'The stone which the   
   builders refused.'"    
   King James Version, 1611    
      
   1616. Doctor William Harvey, Gilbert North, and Inigo Jones find horns of   
   stags and oxen, coals, charcoals, batter-dashers, heads of arrows, pieces of   
   rusted armour, rotten bones, thuribulum (censer) pottery, and a large nail.    
   Long, William, 1876, Stonehenge and its Barrows. The Wiltshire Archaeological   
   and Natural History Magazine, Volume 16    
      
   1620. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, dug a large hole in the ground   
   at the center of Stonehenge looking for buried treasure. (Diary)    
      
   1633-52. Inigo Jones conducted the first 'scientific' surveys of Stonehenge.    
   Jones, I, and Webb, J, 1655, The most notable antiquity of Great Britain   
   vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury plain. London: J Flesher for D Pakeman   
   and L Chapman    
      
   1640. Sir Lawrence Washington, knight, owner of Stonehenge, fished around   
   Bear's Stone (named after Washington's hound dog). Bear's Stone profile   
   portrait a local 17th century attraction. (G-Diary)    
   The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volumes 15-16    
      
   1652. Reverend Lawrence Washington, heir of Stonehenge, commissions Doctor   
   Garry Denke to dig below Bear's Stone, reveals lion, calf (ox), face as a man,   
   flying eagle, bear (dog), leopard, and hidden relics. Bear's Stone (96)   
   renamed Hele 'to conceal,    
   cover, hide'. (G-Diary)    
      
   1653-6. Doctor Garry Denke auger cored below Hele Stone 'The stone which the   
   builders rejected' on various occasions. Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood,   
   bone, concrete discovered at 1-1/3 'yardsticks' (under flying eagle).   
   Elizabeth Washington, heir of    
   Stonehenge.    
   Denke, G, 1699, G-Diary (German to English by Erodelphian Literary Society of   
   Sigma Chi Fraternity). GDG, 1-666    
      
   1666. John Aubrey surveyed Stonehenge and made a 'Review'. Described the   
   Avenue's prehistoric pits. (the 'Aubrey Holes' discovered by Hawley, not   
   Aubrey).    
   Aubrey, J, 1693 (edited by J Fowles 1982), Monumenta Britannica. Sherborne,   
   Dorset: Dorset Publishing Co    
      
   1716. Thomas Hayward, owner of Stonehenge, dug heads of oxen and other beasts.   
   (Diary)    
      
   1721-4. William Stukeley surveyed and excavated Stonehenge and its field   
   monuments. Surveyed the Avenue in 1721 extending beyond Stonehenge Bottom to   
   King Barrow Ridge. Surveyed the Cursus in 1723 and excavated.    
   Stukeley, W, 1740, Stonehenge: a temple restor'd to the British druids.   
   London: W Innys and R Manby    
      
   1757. Benjamin Franklin observes Bear's Stone (96) lion, calf (ox), face as a   
   man, flying eagle, bear (dog), leopard, and Hele Stone 'hidden' relics below   
   them. (Diary)    
      
   1798. Sir Richard Hoare and William Cunnington dug at Stonehenge under the   
   fallen Slaughter Stone 95 and under fallen Stones 56 and 57.    
   The Ancient History of Wiltshire, Volume 1, 1812    
      
   1805-10. William Cunnington dug at Stonehenge on various occasions.    
   Cunnington, W, 1884, Guide to the stones of Stonehenge. Devizes: Bull Printer    
      
   1839. Captain Beamish excavated within Stonehenge. (Diary)    
      
   1874-7. Professor Flinders Petrie produced a plan of Stonehenge and numbered   
   the stones.    
   Petrie, W M F, 1880, Stonehenge: plans, description, and theories. London:   
   Edward Stanford    
      
   1877. Charles Darwin digs at Stonehenge to study 'Sinking of great Stones   
   through the Action of Worms'.    
   Darwin, Charles,1881, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of   
   Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. London: John Murray    
      
   1901. Professor William Gowland meticulously recorded and excavated around   
   stone number 56 at Stonehenge.    
   Gowland, W, 1902, Recent excavations at Stonehenge. Archaeologia, 58, 37-82    
      
   1919-26. Colonel William Hawley extensively excavated in advance of   
   restoration programmes at Stonehenge for the Office of Works and later for the   
   Society of Antiquaries. Hawley excavated ditch sections of the Avenue,   
   conducted an investigation of the    
   Slaughter Stone and other stones at Stonehenge, and discovered the 'Aubrey   
   Holes' (misnamed) through excavation.    
   Hawley, W, 1921, Stonehenge: interim report on the exploration.    
   Antiquaries Journal, 1, 19-41    
   Hawley, W, 1922, Second report on the excavations at Stonehenge.    
   Antiquaries Journal, 2, 36-52    
   Hawley, W, 1923, Third report on the excavations at Stonehenge.    
   Antiquaries Journal, 3, 13-20    
   Hawley, W, 1924, Fourth report on the excavations at Stonehenge, 1922.    
   Antiquaries Journal, 4, 30-9    
   Hawley, W, 1925, Report on the excavations at Stonehenge during the season of   
   1923.    
   Antiquaries Journal, 5, 21-50    
   Hawley, W, 1926, Report on the excavations at Stonehenge during the season of   
   1924.    
   Antiquaries Journal, 6, 1-25    
   Hawley, W, 1928, Report on the excavations at Stonehenge during 1925 and 1926.    
   Antiquaries Journal, 8, 149-76    
   (Diary)    
   Pitts, M, Bayliss, A, McKinley, J, Boylston, A, Budd, P, Evans, J, Chenery, C,   
   Reynolds, A, and Semple, S, 2002, An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at   
   Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 95, 131-46    
      
   1929. Robert Newall excavated Stone 36.    
   Newall, R S, 1929, Stonehenge. Antiquity, 3, 75-88    
   Newall, R S, 1929, Stonehenge, the recent excavations.    
   Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 44, 348-59    
      
   1935. Young, W E V, The Stonehenge car park excavation. (Diary)    
      
   1950. Robert Newall excavated Stone 66.    
   Newall, R S, 1952, Stonehenge stone no. 66. Antiquaries Journal, 32, 65-7    
      
   1952. Robert Newall excavated Stones 71 and 72. (Diary)    
      
   1950-64. A major campaign of excavations by Richard Atkinson, Stuart Piggott,   
   and Marcus Stone involving the re-excavation of some of Hawley’s trenches as   
   well as previously undisturbed areas within Stonehenge.    
   Atkinson, R J C, Piggott, S, and Stone, J F S, 1952, The excavations of two   
   additional holes at Stonehenge, and new evidence for the date of the monument.   
   Antiquaries Journal, 32, 14-20    
   Atkinson, R J C, 1956, Stonehenge. London. Penguin Books in association with   
   Hamish Hamilton. (second revised edition 1979: Penguin Books)    
      
   1966. Faith and Lance Vatcher excavated 3 Mesolithic Stonehenge postholes.   
   Vatcher, F de M and Vatcher, H L, 1973, Excavation of three postholes in   
   Stonehenge car park. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine,   
   68, 57-63    
      
   1968. Faith and Lance Vatcher dug geophone and floodlight cable trenches.   
   (Diary)    
      
      
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