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https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/64th-archaeological-field-season-uncovers-more-colonial-michilimackinac-history/
https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/archaeologists-at-fort-michilimackinac-will-soon-end-digging-season

Seven burials at a dig at an African Burial Ground in Kingston NY:

https://www.dailyfreeman.com/2022/08/16/remains-of-seven-people-discovered-at-pine-street-african-burial-ground-in-kingston/

Overviewish on a dig at a Jesuit plantation site in Southern Maryland:

https://cathstan.org/news/local/archaeological-dig-at-st-francis-xavier-parish-in-newtowne-offers-clues-on-life-at-jesuit-plantations-in-southern-maryland

A dig is underway at the Nels and Lilian Anderson Homestead in Bend, Oregon:

https://ktvz.com/news/bend/2022/08/18/archaeological-dig-starting-at-nels-and-lillian-anderson-homestead-ahead-of-highway-97-project/

More on preservation concerns for the wreck of the Endeavour off Rhode Island:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-shipworms-captain-cook-endeavour.html https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/17/worm-eaten-shipwreck-of-captain-cooks-endeavour-under-threat-from-more-marine-animals
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-wreck-of-captain-cooks-endeavour-termites-ocean-2160706
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shipworms-are-destroying-the-ship-believed-to-be-captain-cooks-endeavour-180980599/

More on 12 000 years bp footprints in the Utah desert:

https://www.upr.org/utah-news/2022-08-16/twelve-thousand-year-old-footprints-were-discovered-in-the-great-salt-lake-desert

More on DNA and the Chincoteague ponies:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/08/chincoteague-island-ponies-horses-tooth/671151/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chincoteague-pony-origin

Culvert replacement near Kent City (MI) revealed a skeleton of a Mastodon:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/construction-crews-stumble-upon-mastodon-skeleton-in-michigan-180980583/

Feature on Native American mound builders:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/08/the-native-american-mound-builders/144453

Feature on the Watson Brake earthwork site:

https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2022/08/19/ouachita-parish-archaeological-site-dates-back-3500-bce/10300703002/

Feature on the USS Constitution:

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-august-19-old-ironsides-legend-born-victory

Plans to commemorate the Battle of Plattsburgh:

https://www.wamc.org/news/2022-08-19/battle-of-plattsburgh-organizers-outline-plans-for-this-years-commemoration

Review of Lucy Sante, *Nineteen Reservoirs*:

https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/culture/article/Lucy-Sante-Nineteen-Reservoirs-book-review-17380000.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/books/review-nineteen-reservoirs-lucy-sante.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
Study links collapse of Mayapan to drought:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-collapse-ancient-mayan-capital-linked.html

Study suggests the Amazon region was densely populated in the past and shaped by human activity:

https://agencia.fapesp.br/a-amazonia-foi-densamente-povoada-no-passado-e-a-acao-humana-moldou-a-floresta-existente-hoje/39387/

More on those Olmec 'contortionist' reliefs:

https://www.livescience.com/olmec-contortionist-reliefs-mexico https://www.archaeology.org/news/10737-220817-mexico-olmec-reliefs

More on burials as a source for Mayan pelota balls:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-the-balls-in-ancient-mayan-sport-really-made-with-dead-people
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/were-balls-ancient-sport-really-020258652.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534004-800-did-mayan-game-use-ashes-of-dead-rules-to-make-the-balls/

Latest LiDAR-located 'lost city' in the Amazon:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lidar-technology-confirms-the-existence-of-a-lost-city-in-the-brazilian-amazon-301607940.html

Feature on the Aztec Empire:

https://www.livescience.com/aztec-empire-mexico

Feature on Caral:

https://www.gulf-times.com/story/722844/Caral-the-oldest-civilisation-in-America

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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ============================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ============================================================
Feature on items identified as toys in various ancient cultural contexts:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220816-the-worlds-oldest-toys-what-toys-were-used-in-the-past

Feature on how 'big data' could transform archaeology (with a Chinese archaeology focus):

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3189507/how-big-data-could-transform-archaeology-if-only-money-would

Feature on Lady Eliza Burroughs:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/pictures/thedayinpicturesmonday2ndapril/20676564.victorian-lady-uncovered-one-scotlands-neolothic-treasures/

Study suggests a Galileo manuscript is a forgery:

https://politpost.com/2022/08/17/a-watermark-and-spidey-sense-unmask-a-forged-galileo-treasure/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/arts/galileo-forgery-university-of-michigan.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/librarys-prized-galileo-manuscript-turns-out-to-be-a-clever-forgery/

Feature on 'medieval carpenters' working on the restoration of Notre Dame:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-rebuild-medieval-carpenters-guledon

What assorted tests reveal about some Vermeers:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/15/tests-reveal-secrets-of-four-vermeer-paintingsincluding-whether-they-are-authenticin-washington-dc-show

Feature on De La Tour's Magdalen With the Smoking Flame:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2022/georges-de-la-tour-magdalen-smoking-flame/

Feature on Proust:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220812-did-proust-write-the-greatest-novel-of-the-20th-century

Feature/Review on John Donne:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/john-donne-poetry-super-infinite-book/670605/

Feature on the use of mummies to make paint:

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/pigment-mummy-brown-paint/

Betelgeuse apparently appeared a different colour to ancient astronomers:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-stargazers-saw-betelgeuse-shine-a-different-color/

Someone has recorded the Hymn to Nikkal:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/18/its-so-alien-ive-never-heard-anything-like-it-folk-collective-heilung-on-recording-the-worlds-oldest-song

Feature on tattoos:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220817-will-tattoos-finally-be-accepted-as-art

Feature on Delft tiles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/t-magazine/delft-tiles.html https://politpost.com/2022/08/19/delft-tiles-get-a-playful-and-sometimes-raunchy-update/

A study of documents to figure out early printing presses:

https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2022/08/16/the-hidden-secrets-of-the-earliest-printed-pages

Cambridge is digitizing a pile of medieval medical manuscripts:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/medieval-medical-manuscripts-intl-scli-scn/index.html

cf: https://collectionsresearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/curious-cures

Not sure if we mentioned this study suggesting human brains didn't get smaller 3000 years bp:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-08-17/ty-article/new-paper-debunks-shocking-theory-that-our-brains-shrank-3-000-years-ago/00000182-aacc-d14d-abfb-aaee52f50000

Feature on 21 major epidemics of the past:

https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html

Review of Orlando Figes, *The Story of Russia*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/21/the-story-of-russia-by-orlando-figes-review-vladimir-putin-and-the-power-of-myth-making
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CURRENT EVENTS: ============================================================
Latest 'glue protest' involved activists gluing themselves to the Laocoon:

https://hyperallergic.com/754671/climate-protesters-glue-themselves-to-vatican-masterpiece/

Applying lessons from the Crimean war to the current Russia-Ukraine conflict:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/21/russia-ukraine-five-lessons-crimean-war-ted-widmer
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
Feature on cats in various ancient civilizations:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/even-ancient-civilizations-loved-cats

Feature on chile pepper use throughout history:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/t-magazine/hot-chiles-pepper-spice.html ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS ============================================================
Open Horizons (Greek):

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1191239/ancient-greece-in-melbourne/

Vincent Meets Rembrandt:

http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0818/c90000-10136709.html

U2 Spy Plane Photos of sites:

https://www.inquirer.com/arts/u2-spy-images-penn-museum-archaeology-exhibition-20220820.html

Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118518/De-Young-Museum-witnesses-the-opening-of-%E2%80%98Ramses-and-the

Discovered - Defamed - Celebrated (Expressionist):

https://www.dw.com/en/expressionisms-rocky-path-from-shunned-to-celebrated-art/a-62854114

cf: https://www.museum-folkwang.de/en/exhibition/expressionists-folkwang

Pondering/questioning the colours of the Chroma exhibition at the Met:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/arts/design/reproductions-museums-sculpture-met-brinkmann-antiquity-polychromy.html
https://politpost.com/2022/08/17/that-painted-greek-maiden-at-the-met-just-whose-vision-is-she/

Afghanistan's national museum has reopened:

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/14/1117421088/under-taliban-guard-afghanistans-national-museum-has-reopened

Feature on three palace museums in China:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3185807/hong-kong-taiwan-beijing-3-palace-museums-and-chinese-cultural

Feature on the history of the Egyptian Museum:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/473299.aspx

Indigenous South Americans have visited Oxford to identify some colonial-era looted (probably) items:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/20658049.indigenous-south-americans-visit-oxford-museum-study-objects-taken-early-colonists/
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THE TECHY SIDE ============================================================
Latest facial reconstruction is of the 5000 years bp 'Penang Woman':

https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/national/prehistoric-5000-year-old-penang-woman-finally-has-a-face/ar-AA10AfI3
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10734-220816-malaysia-penang-woman

Feature on a 'haptic robot' being used to explore deep sea shipwrecks:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-deep-sea-haptic-robot-helps-scientists-rescue-ancient-artifacts
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CLIMATE MATTERS ============================================================
Overviewish piece on all the things being revealed by drought in Europe:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/hunger-stones-wrecks-and-bones-europe-drought-brings-past-to-surface

Study warning against over-interpretation of climate connection to decline of societies in Pre-Columbian Peru:

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-cautions-over-interpreting-climate-cultural-catastrophe.html
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TOURISTY THINGS ============================================================
Record numbers of tourists are visiting Knossos:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/08/18/record-numbers-of-tourists-visit-the-minoan-palace-of-knossos-in-crete/

Latest tourists-behaving-badly were riding motorized surfboards in Venice:

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/19/1118381888/venice-mayor-surfing-tourists ============================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Feature on Joseph Boulogne:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0cry99y/joseph-boulogne-the-musical-genius-you-ve-never-heard-of

On rewriting Black women into film history:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/movies/nasty-women-cinema.html

Review of The Legend of Molly Johnson:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/movies/the-legend-of-molly-johnson-review.html

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CRIME BEAT
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97 coins seized at the Luxor Airport:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118426/97-archaeological-coins-confiscated-at-Luxor-International-Airport
https://see.news/archaeological-inspectors-seized-97-coins-at-luxor-intern/

An antiquities bust in the West Bank:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/forces-recover-rare-findings-from-alleged-antiquities-traffickers-in-west-bank/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-714773

Followup to the 'heist of the century' from the National Gallery in Athens a decade ago:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1191369/heist-of-the-century-suspect-meant-to-return-paintings/

A magazine article photo was apparently altered to conceal some questionable Cambodian antiquities:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/architectural-digest-alter-photos-lindemann-barnett-looted-artifacts-1234636671/
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/lindemann-cambodia-relics-altered-photo-magazine/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/15/lindemann-cambodian-investigation-architectural-digest/

More on a stolen Picasso turning up in a drug raid in Iraq:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/15/iraq-claims-to-have-found-a-stolen-picasso-worth-millions-during-a-drug-raid
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/picasso-painting-found-drug-raid-iraq-1234636589/

Feature on our 'obsession' with art heists:

https://daily.jstor.org/our-obsession-with-art-heists/
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conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ============================================================
Cambodia has identified items at the Met it says were illegally acquired and wants back:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/arts/design/met-artifacts-cambodia.html

The Met returned a pair of items to Nepal:

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-returns-artifacts-nepal-1234636746/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/met-returns-two-stolen-artifacts-to-nepal-180980609/

A somewhat strange view on the Benin Bronzes:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/15/benin-bronzes-must-not-returned-nigeria-profited-slavery/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/benin-bronzes-return-to-nigeria-would-reward-slavery-say-activists-5bcb0tpbs
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.php?story=20220809213911676

More on Horniman Museum returns of Benin Bronzes:

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/08/16/uk-museum-gives-its-small-fraction-of-stolen-royal-treasures-acquired-through-force-back-to-nigeria/

More on Getty returns to Italy:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/getty-museum-returns-art-to-italy-2160059

More on Sudan seeking items from assorted UK institutions:

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2107161/art-culture

More on assorted US returns to Cambodia:

https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501135749/u-s-returns-30-stolen-antique-artworks-to-cambodia/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on 'erotic' ancient coins:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/eroticism-ancient-coins-adults/

Feature on coins depicting Octavia Minor:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/octavia-minor-a-wonder-of-a-woman/

Feature on coins of Philip II:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-greek-coins-philip-ii-king-of-macedonia/

Feature on currency in the time of Cleopatra VII:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118393/Currency-in-the-time-of-Cleopatra-VII

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n33.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n34.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Joseph Aviram:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-08-16/ty-article/.premium/archaeologist-jospeh-aviram-who-led-excavations-in-pre-state-israel-dies-at-106/00000182-a68a-d14a-abfb-f79ebeed0000

John Madison Cooper:

https://centraljersey.com/2022/08/17/john-madison-cooper-82/

Katharine MacDonald:

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2022/08/in-memoriam-katharine-macdonald-1976-2022

Kamoya Kimeu:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kamoya-kimeu-obituary-m0f0rhqjr https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/19/kamoya-kimeu-fossils-kenya-leakey-dead/
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/famed-paleontologist-turkana-boy-discoverer-kamoya-kimeu-dies-70396

Deborah Nichols:

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/08/lindsey-almadani-nichols-inspired-generations-remembered-for-kindness

Rudolph Larios:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/rodolfo-rudolph-larios-obituary?id=36273012

Regge Wiseman:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/santafenewmexican/name/regge-wiseman-obituary?id=36276350

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http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Atlas Obscura:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/

Heritage Daily:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/

Sapiens Archaeology:

https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

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Warum ist das Tabernakel von G-D immer noch unter Hele Stone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:YHWH_Allah_(LORD_God)/sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:YHWH_Allah_(LORD_God)/sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:YHWH_Allah_(LORD_God)/sandbox

Any digs missing?

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COMPLETE HISTORY OF STONEHENGE EXCAVATIONS

1611. King James VI and I investigated Stonehenge to see "The stone which the builders refused", "The stone which the builders reiected", and "the stone which the builders disallowed". 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 the Hele Stone (96) "Seven Heads": lion, calf (ox), face as a man, flying eagle, bear (dog), leopard, and sardine; "Ten Horns": Altar of Burnt Offering (4 horns), Altar of Incense (4 horns), and Torah scroll (2 horns);
and all of the other 'hidden' relics buried there. (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

1886. Kaiser Wilhelm Society founder 33° mason Friedrich Wilhelm Denke confirmed with his auger drilled core samples (under bear, leopard and calf) Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone and concrete 4 feet (1.2 meter) beneath Stonehenge Hele Stone base.
(FW-Diary)

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, 30-39
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)

1942. Company 'C', 63rd Signal Battalion, U.S. Army Signal Corps, WWII confirmed Tabernacle of G-D beneath Heel Stone in 1942 whilst at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, U.K., on All Hallows' Eve of '42, before Shipping-out to Operation Torch invasion at Algiers (
Eastern) in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, during WWII. On the 31st day October of '42 (a Saturday) it was G-D of "C" Company, the 63rd Signal Battalion, caught Witching, and Core drilling; Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone, Bluestone
concrete (volcanic ash and tuff) at 3 to 4 'yardsticks' from GL beneath Slick-side Heel Stone (the Northeast face), and Bluestone sandstone ("micaceous stump") at 4 'yardsticks' from GL underneath Hele Stone; the Sun of righteousness Helios Stone. (see
redacted "Top Secret" Arrest Report expunged '42)

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)

1974. Garry Denke and Ralph Ferdinand set out to confirm Sir Lawrence Washington, knight and Reverend Lawrence Washington's revelation (G-Diary). Auger cores 1.2m (4ft) below Heel Stone 96 (under face as a man). Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone,
concrete confirmed. No coal in cores. Stonehenge Free Festival. Denke, G W, 1974, Stonehenge Phase I: An Open-pit Coalfield Model; The First Geologic Mining School (Indiana University of Pennsylvania). GDG, 74, 1-56


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