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CASTLE ORCHARD, WILTSHIRE

1879 Excavation CASTLE ORCHARD


Auspices Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
Director of fieldwork LIEUTENANT GENERAL Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
Finds Holder Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Museum Devizes

Publications :
Interim report Somerset archaeology and natural history : the proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 25/1879/6-17

1939 Excavation CASTLE ORCHARD

'Ministry of Works records state that shortly before the 1939-45
war a trial excavation was carried out on the motte and a
battered stone wall with flint was discovered'. Information
drawn from monument record ST 73 SE 7 (UID 202574).