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Only a short drive from
the megalith of Stonehenge, this old Wiltshire
town lies on the sprawling Salisbury Plain.
Close by is the Iron Age earthwork Vespasian’s
Camp.
In 2002 archaeologists unearthed an Early
Bronze Age man on the site of a new housing
estate.
Dubbed the ‘Amesbury archer’, he was found
together with arrowheads and flint tools.
Amesbury Abbey was the one-time residence of
the dukes of Queensberry and, according to an
account by Thomas Mallory, was the final
refuge of Guinevere following the death of her
husband, King Arthur. |
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The Bell Inn, Amesbury -
Photo:
Patricia Steel
CCL |
