Type

Monument

Title / Name

Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Settlement and Midden, All Cannings Cross

Summary

A late Bronze Age/early Iron Age settlement and midden site excavated 1911-22. Further work was commenced in 2003.

MIDDEN; SETTLEMENT, Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age (-2350 to 42)

Source Detail: No Originator information.,

Title: Report of the Marlborough College Natural History Society

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI10118

Additional Information: 70

Source Detail: Marlborough College,

Title: Report of the Marlborough College Natural History Society

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI10133

Additional Information: 70

Source Detail: Cunnington, M E; Goddard, E H, 1934

Title: Devizes Museum Catalogue 3 - Master

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI12024

Source Detail: No Originator information.,

Title: Antiquaries Journal - Volume 2

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI1242

Additional Information: Antiquaries Journal Volume 2

Source Detail: Pugh, R. B. + Crittall, E. + Grinsell, L. V. + Gifford, J., 1957

Title: The Victoria County History of the Counties of England: A History of Wiltshire Vol.1.1 (MASTER)

Summary: Gazetteer Source ID: SWI13104

Additional Information: Oxford University Press 1 1

Description: Settlement site of about 4 acres. Excavated between 1911-22 by Cunnington. Finds include worked bone and chalk, and evidence of iron smelting for domestic needs was revealed during a research study of the finds.

Source Detail: Annable, F K; Simpson, D D A, 1964

Title: Devizes Museum Catalogue 4 - Master

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI13613

Source Detail: Ordnance Survey, 1973

Title: Fieldwork Ordnance Survey - 1973

Summary: Fieldwork Source ID: SWI15988

Description: No extant remains.

Source Detail: Cunliffe, Barry, 1974

Title: All Cannings

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI16098

Description: Pottery represented by c1000 pots for which style All Cannings has become the type-site.

Source Detail: Harding, Phil, 1974

Title: Harding 1974

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI16177

Source Detail: No Originator information., 1975

Title: British Archaeological Report 1975

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI16278

Additional Information: 20

Source Detail: British Archaeological Report, 1975

Title: British Archaeological Report 1975

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI16279

Additional Information: Number 20

Source Detail: British Archaeological Report, 1978

Title: British Archaeological Report 1978

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI16947

Additional Information: 48

Source Detail: British Archaeological Reports, 1978

Title: British Archaeological Reports 1978

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI16948

Additional Information: Number 48

Source Detail: Ehenreich, Robert M, 1994

Title: Ironworking in Iron Age Wessex (in The Iron Age in Wessex: Recent Work edited by Fitzpatrick, A P and Morris, Elaine L

Summary: Publication Source ID: SWI20639

Source Detail: Devizes Museum, 1995

Title: Devizes Museum Accession Register 1995.150

Summary: Register Source ID: SWI20799

Source Detail: Devizes Museum, 1995

Title: Devizes Museum Accession Register 1995.78

Summary: Register Source ID: SWI20832

Description: 50 sherds dug up by badgers.

Source Detail: Devizes Museum, 2000

Title: Devizes Museum Accession Register 2000.94-95

Summary: Register Source ID: SWI21765

Source Detail: Barrett, J. + McOmish, D., 2003

Title: All Cannings Cross

Summary: Excavation - Interim report Produced for Current Archaeology but not published. Source ID: SWI22254

Description: A settlement site linking the transition between the Late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age periods. Bronze Age pottery was incorporated in the colluvial build-up of soil across the site indicating the site was situated in a landscape which had already been heavily utilised agriculturally. The finds from the 1909 excavation have been re-catalogued in Devizes Museum during 2000. The site was re-examined during 2003 by John Barrett and David McOmish with the University of Sheffield students. A series of 1m square test pits were opened which confirmed that in areas to the north of Cunnington's trenches, archaeological deposits survived modern agricultural practices. A number of pits and postholes were uncovered. The site extends over several hectares.

Source Detail: Williams, H. + Swallow, R., 2017

Title: Report and Proceedings of the 162nd Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute, 2016

Summary: The Royal Archaeological Institute' Summer Meeting 2016 was held in Wiltshire, focusing on recent archaeological research in the county from prehistory to current times. Source ID: SWI28128

Additional Information: Archaeological Journal 174 Supplement

Description: Work by pioneers, such as Maud Cunnington, in the first half of the C20 laid the foundation for the study of the Iron Age nationally, and sites, especially All Cannings Cross, are still important. The large middens found around the Vale of Pewsey are a distinctive regional phenomenon of the Late Bronze Age and earliest Iron Age (C8-7 BC). Sites such as Potterne and East Chisenbury must represent repeated episodes of feasting and key sites of communal gathering; the site at All Cannings Cross was probably of a similar nature.

Source Detail: Carpenter, E. + Winton, H., 2011

Title: Marden Henge and Environs: Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire

Summary: NMP Project Report Source ID: SWI28245

Additional Information: English Heritage

Description: The site, which covered an area of circa 4 hectares, comprised a large quantity of artefactual material, including pottery, various bone tools and bronze items, animal and human remains, iron slag,crucible fragments, spindle whorls, loomweights and other items. Some 75 pits were also excavated. The site was generally regarded as a large open settlement of late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age origin, but re-assessment, including rexcavation of part of the site in 2003-4, led to the interpretation of the site as a midden comparable to those at Potterne and East Chisenbury. It is possible that this site relates to some of the boundaries on the lower slopes on either side of Clifford's Hill.

Source Detail: Shell, C. A., 2003

Title: Geophysical Surveys of East Chisenbury and All Cannings Cross Sites

Summary: Geophysical Survey Source ID: SWI28658

Additional Information: Shell, C. A.

Description: The survey showed a wide scatter of small, less than 1 metre diameter, pit-like features but these may have been plough surface noise. There was however a line of characteristic pit-related features of 1 metre or greater diameter crossing the survey area across the slope of the field, and they occured periodically elsewhere. In the western, lower, part of the survey area was an unusual network of broad, diffuse, higher signal, strips with some rectilinear aspects at the western edge, but becoming less regular in the central part of the survey. They did not extend up the slope of the site. These features may have represented greater depths of soil, or alternatively a greater thickness of chalk in areas between them. Their orientation did not correspond to the recent ploughing direction, nor, given the orientation of the ground slope, were they consistent with underlying periglacial stripe and polygon formations. Further work to determine their origin could be worthwhile.

Source Detail: Antiquaries Journal,

Title: Volume 2

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI33

Additional Information: Antiquaries Journal 2

Source Detail: No Originator information.,

Title: Cunliffe 1974

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI3856

Source Detail: Devizes Museum,

Title: Devizes Museum Daybook - 1782

Summary: Register Source ID: SWI6373

Description: Bifid razor length 2.25 ins.

Source Detail: No Originator information.,

Title: Harding 1974

Summary: No summary information. Source ID: SWI9132