Basingstoke Archaeological and Historical Society
8:43am Tuesday 27th September 2011
THE society resumed its winter lecture programme following the summer break with a talk by Andrew Manning, of Wessex Archaeology, on recent finds at Avon Fields housing development at the former
MOD Durrington site on Salisbury Plain. Excavations within the north-west corner of the modern village of Durrington not far from the huge Neolithic henge known as Durrington Walls and Woodhenge,
both of which are more than 4,500 years old, have revealed previously unknown Neolithic monuments, a surprisingly large Iron Age/Romano British settlement containing many archaeological features
such as granaries, storage pits, a corn-drying kiln and a Roman road. A couple of sink holes that were discovered hint at something sacred or special about this site as there was evidence for a
'pavement' of flint knapping debris, including some finely worked flints, around the perimeters of the holes. The settlement appears to have been surrounded by an enormous ditch over 6m in width
and up to 4m in depth. Excavations will continue next summer.
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