Books on Avebury

An Avebury bibliography compiled for the Avebury Society by ASAHRG (Avebury and Stonehenge Archaeological and Historical Research Group), April 2026. Aubrey, John. 1980. Fowles, J. and Legg, R., (eds.). John Aubrey’s Monumenta Britannica, parts 1-2. Dorset Publishing. Bowles, William Lisle. 1828. The Parochial History of Bremhill in the County of Wiltshire, London: John Murray. Brown, Graham., Field, David. and McOmish, David. (eds.). 2005. The Avebury Landscape: aspects of the field archaeology of the Marlborough Downs. Oxford: Oxbow. Burl, Aubrey. 2002. Prehistoric Avebury. Second edition. Yale University Press. Caulfield, James. 1819. ‘Thomas Robinson’, Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons etc. Vol. II of IV. London: H.R. Young, T.H. Whitely. Pp. 155-157. https://archive.org/details/portraitsmemoir00unkngoog/page/n224/mode/2up Chadburn, Amanda., and Pomeroy-Kellinger, M. (eds.). 2001. Archaeological Research Agenda for the Avebury World Heritage Site, English Heritage and Avebury Archaeological and Historical Research Group (AAHRG). https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/archaeological-research-agenda- avebury/ Chadburn, A. (ed.). 2026. This Land: The Avebury World Heritage Site in its national and international context. AAHRG monograph 1995. https://asahrg.org/assets/PROCEEDINGS-OF-AN-AAHRG-SYMPOSIUM.pdf Crawford, O. G. S. and Keiller, A. 1928. Wessex from the Air. Clarendon Press. https://archive.org/details/wessexfromair0000ogsc/page/n5/mode/2up Cunnington, M. E. 1913. ‘The re-erection of two fallen stones, and discovery of an interment with drinking cup, at Avebury,’ Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 38, 1-11. Dunscombe, Hilary. 1985. Avebury a Five Mile Chapel. Avebury: Avebury Chapel. Edelman, Ian. 1985, Discovering Avebury, Aylesbury: Shire Publications. Edwards, Brian. 2006. ‘Archaeology’s Best Known Skeleton’, Regional Historian 15: 8-12. Edwards, Brian. 2000. ‘Avebury and other not-so-ancient places: the making of the English heritage landscape,’ in Kean, H., Martin, P., and Morgan S. J. (eds.). Seeing History: Public History in Britain Now, 65-80. London, Francis Bouttle. Edwards, Brian. 1995. ‘Avebury to Australia, Transportation and Emigration’ Wiltshire Folklife 30, Spring, pp. 33-35. Edwards, Brian. 2003. ‘Changing Avebury’. 3 rd Stone 47: 44-58. Edwards, Brian. 2013. ‘Edward Drax and the Batheaston Vase Adventure’. Regional Historian 26: 21-6. Edwards, Brian. 2026. ‘Forever changing Avebury.’ In Neil Mortimer (ed.). The Megalithic Imperative: A 3rd Stone Anthology. Edwards, Brian. 2026. ‘Medieval Avebury revisited: Peter Fleming’s additional translation from the Cirencester Cartulary.’ The Regional Historian. Edwards, Brian. 2010. ‘Silbury Hill: Edward Drax and the Excavations of 1776’, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 103: 257-268. https://archive.org/details/wiltshirearchaeo1032wilt/page/256/mode/2up Edwards, Brian. 2010. ‘Stukeley’s Bridle and Other Finds: Some Reports from 1771 and 1850’, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 103: 323-325. https://archive.org/details/wiltshirearchaeo1032wilt/page/322/mode/2up Edwards, Brian. 2014. ‘The “most useful intelligences & observations” of Thomas Twining c.1664-1739, author of the first publication dedicated to the Avebury monuments’, Redhorn News, September. Edwards, Brian. 1995. ‘Village Labour: Allotments and Arson’, Wiltshire Folklife 30, Spring, pp. 21-32. Evans, S. 2011. The Manor Reborn: The Transformation of Avebury Manor. London: National Trust. Gillings, Mark. and Pollard, Joshua. 2004. Avebury. London: Duckworths. Gillings, M., Pollard, J., Peterson, R. and Wheatley, D. 2008. ‘Avebury’, British Archaeology 103, pp. 28-33. Gillings, Mark. and Pollard, Joshua. 2015. ‘Authenticity, Artifice and the Druidical Temple of Avebury.’ In Landscape Biographies, edited by Jan Kolen et al., Amsterdam University Press, pp. 117–42. https://www.jstor.org/content/oa_chapter_edited/j.ctt15r3x99.8?seq=1 Gillings, Mark. and Pollard, Joshua. Wheatley. Dave., Peterson, Rick. 2008. Landscape of the Megaliths: Excavations and Fieldwork on the Avebury Monuments 1997-2003. Oxford: Oxbow. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nKWmAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT21&dq=landscape+of+the +megaliths&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT4- rEu7uMAxVZTkEAHT6BCEkQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false Gillings, Mark., Allen, Mike., French, Charly., Cleal, Rosamund., Snashall, Nick., Pike, Alistair., and Pollard, Joshua. 2015. ‘Living on the Avenue: investigating settlement histories and other events at West Kennet, near Avebury’, PAST 81, pp. 6-9. https://www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications/past/81 Gillings, Mark. and Pollard, Joshua. 2016. ‘Making Megaliths: Shifting and Unstable Stones in the Neolithic of the Avebury Landscape.’ Cambridge Archaeological Journal 26(4): 537-9. https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33448/7/Gillings_Pollard_CAJ_final.pdf Gillings, Mark. and Pollard, Joshua.1999. ‘Non-Portable Stone Artifacts and Contexts of Meaning: The Tale of Grey Wether,’ World Archaeology, vol. 31, no. 2, 1999, pp. 179–93. https://www.jstor.org/stable/125056 Gillings, Mark., Cheetham, Paul., and Lewis, Jayme. 2024, ‘Pinning down the serpent’s tail: confirming the course of the Beckhampton Avenue, Avebury’, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 117, pp. 1-18. Gillings, Mark. and Pollard, Joshua. 1998. ‘Romancing the stones: Towards a virtual and elemental Avebury’, Archaeological Dialogues, 5(2), pp. 143–164. doi:10.1017/S1380203800001276. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-dialogues/article/abs/romancing-the- stones1/B081AD44A9068844224B39E504E85399 Gillings, Mark., Peterson, Rick., and Pollard, Joshua. 2004. ‘The destruction of the Avebury monuments.’ In R. Cleal & J. Pollard (eds.). Monuments and Material Culture: 139-163. East Knoyle: Hobnob Press. Gillings, Mark. and Pollard, Joshua. and Strutt, K. 2019. ‘The origins of Avebury’, Antiquity, 93(368), pp. 359–377. doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.37. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/origins-of- avebury/DB43C9DCF03F2F2B75E487DE0D312B75 Gray, H.S.G. 1935. ‘The Avebury excavations 1908-1922.’ Archaeologia 84: 99-162. Grinsell, L.V. 1953. Avebury and the North Wessex Downs. The Ancient Burial-mounds of England,  Ch10, 174-185. Second Edition. London: Methuen. Geddes, Isobel. 2000. Hidden Depths: Wiltshire’s Geology and Landscapes. Ex Libris Press. Fowler, Peter. 2000. Landscape plotted and pieced : landscape history and local archaeology in Fyfield and Overton, Wiltshire. London: Society of Antiquaries of London. https://archive.org/details/landscapeplotted0000fowl/mode/2up Fowler, Peter. and Blackwell, Ian. 1998. The Land of Lettice Sweetapple: An English Countryside Explored, Stroud: Tempus. Freeman, J. 1983. ‘Selkley Hundred: Avebury’ in D. A. Crowley (ed.). Victoria County History of Wiltshire, vol.12, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 86-104. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol12/pp86-105 Hare, J. 2011. A prospering society: Wiltshire in the later middle ages. Hatfield, University of Hertfordshire Press. Harrison, W. J. 1902. ‘A bibliography of the great stone monuments of Wiltshire – Stonehenge and Avebury’. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 32: 1–170 Hauser, K. 2008. Bloody Old Britain: O.G.S. Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life. London: Granta Publications. Haycock. D. B. 1999. ‘A small journey into the country’: William Stukeley and the formal Landscapes of Stonehenge and Avebury. In, Myrone, M. Peltz, L., (eds.). Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700-1850: 67-82. Aldershot: Ashgate. Haycock, D. B. 2002. William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth Century England. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. Hunter, M. 1975. John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning. New York: Science History Publications. Hunter, J. 1829. ‘Present State of Abury, Wilts.’ In The Gentleman's Magazine, XCIX Part II: 3-7. Keiller, A. 1939. ‘Avebury: summary of excavations 1937 and 1938.’ Antiquity 13: 223-33. Keiller, A. and Piggott, S. 1936. ‘The recent excavations at Avebury.’ Antiquity 10: 417-27. King, N. E. 1968. ‘The Kennet Valley Sarsen Industry.’ Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 63: 83-93. Kirby, J. L. 1956. ‘Alien Houses: The Priory of Avebury.’ In R. B. Pugh and E. Crittall (eds.). Victoria County History of Wiltshire, vol 3: 392-93. Oxford University Press. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol3/pp392-393 Law, A. 1969. ‘Caleb Baily, the demolisher.’ Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 64: 100-6. https://archive.org/stream/wiltshirearchaeo6419wilt/wiltshirearchaeo6419wilt_djvu.txt Leary, J. Field, D. Cambell, G. (eds.). 2013. Silbury Hill: The Largest Prehistoric Mound in Europe. English Heritage. Leary, J. Field, D. 2010. The Story of Silbury Hill. Swindon: English Heritage. Leivers, Matt., and Powell, Andrew B. (compilers and editors.). A Research Framework for the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites World Heritage Site. Avebury Resource Assessment. Wessex Archaeology Monograph 38. 2016.  https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/stonehenge-and-avebury-revised-research- Leivers, Matt., and Powell, Andrew B. A Research Framework for the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites World Heritage Site. Research Agenda and Strategy. Wessex Archaeology Monograph 39. 2016 https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/stonehenge-and-avebury-revised-research- Long, W. 1858. Abury Illustrated. Devizes: Bull. Long, W. 1878. ‘Abury Notes.’ Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 17: 327-35. Lucas, Charles. 1801. The old serpentine temple of the druids, at Avebury, a poem. Second edition. https://books.google.ca/books?id=ubgHAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_ summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Lukis, W.C. 1881-3. ‘Report of the Prehistoric Monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury.’ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 9: 141-57. Markham, S. 1984. John Loveday of Caversham 1711-1789: The Life and Tours of an Eighteenth Century Onlooker. Salisbury: Michael Russell. Marshall, Steve. 2018. Avebury Days: An Easy Walking Guide. Somerset: Sound Pod. Marshall, Steve. 2016. Exploring Avebury: The Essential Guide. Cheltenham: The History Press. Matless, David. 1998. Landscape and Englishness. London: Reaktion Books. Moody, Robert. 2011. ‘The Reverend Charles Lucas (1769-1854) of Avebury and Devizes – a forgotten novelist, miscellaneous write and crusading clergyman.’ Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 104: 221-236. Murray, L. J. 1999. A Zest for Life: the story of Alexander Keiller. Morven Press. Northumberland, E. Seymour Percy. 1926. The Diaries of a Duchess: Extracts from the Diaries of the First Duchess of Northumberland 1716-1776. Greig, J (ed.). New York: George H. Doran. Onslow, R. 1997. The Story of Beckhampton House Stables. Beckhampton: Racing Promotional Literature. Owen, J. 2013. Darwin’s Apprentice: An Archaeological Biography of John Lubbock. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. Parker, J. (ed.). 2009. Written on Stone: The Cultural Reception of British Prehistoric Monuments. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Parry, G. 1995. The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Parslew, P. 2004. Beckhampton: Time Present and Time Past. East Knoyle: Hobnob Press. Peterson, R. 2003. ‘Thomas Twining’s Roman Avebury.’ Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine: 210-13. https://archive.org/stream/wiltshirearchaeo9620wilt/wiltshirearchaeo9620wilt_djvu.txt Piggott, S. 1964. ‘Excavations at Avebury 1960.’ Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 59: 28-9. Piggott, S. 1985. William Stukeley: an eighteenth-century antiquary. Thames & Hudson. https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.27266 Pitts, M. 2001. Hengeworld. Revised edition. London: Arrow Pitts, M. 1985. Footprints through Avebury. Pitts, M. 1996. ‘The vicar’s dewpond, the National Trust shop and the rise of paganism’. In Morgan Evans, D., Salway, P. Thackray, D. (eds.). The Remains of Distant Times: Archaeology and the National Trust: 132-146. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. Pollard, Joshua. and Reynolds, Andrew. 2002. Avebury: the biography of a landscape. Oxford: Tempus. Pollard, J., Allen, M., Cleal, R., French, C., Gardiner, J., Gillings, M., McFadyen, L. & Snashall, N. 2011. ‘Between the Monuments: new fieldwork at Avebury’. PAST 68, pp. 10- 11. https://www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications/past/68 Pollard, J., Allen, M., Cleal, R., Snashall, N., Gunter, J., Roberts, V. and Robinson, D. 2012. ‘East of Avebury: tracing prehistoric activity and environmental change in the environs of Avebury henge (excavations at Rough Leaze 2007)’, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 105, pp. 1-20. Ponting K. G. (ed.) 1969. John Aubrey’s natural history of Wiltshire: a reprint of the natural history of Wiltshire. Newton Abbot: David and Charles Powell, A. 1963. John Aubrey and his Friends. Revised. London: William Heinemann. Pugh, R. B. and Crittall, E. (eds.). 1957. A history of Wiltshire. Volume I-III. London: University of London Institute of Historical Research, Victoria History of the Counties of England Rawlins, M. 1999. Butcher, Baker, Saddlemaker: Village Life in Avebury from 1920 to 1974. Chippenham: Antony Rowe Ltd. Raymond, Stuart A. 2024. Avebury without the Stones: a Social History c.1550-1800, Hobnob. Raymond, Stuart A. 2026. The Holford Papers: Avebury 1695-1798, Wiltshire Record Society. Raymond, Stuart A. 2024, ‘The inns of Avebury, c.1600-1800’, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 117, pp. 159-167. Reade, Pete. 2008. A Good Reade! Memoirs of a Wiltshire Life. Part 1. Reeves, M.E. 1956. ‘Protestant nonconformity.’ In R.B. Pugh and E. Crittall (eds.). A History of Wiltshire (VCH) 3: 99-149. London: OUP. Roberts, J. 2002. ‘“That Terrible Woman”: the life, work and legacy of Maud Cunnington.’ Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 95: 46-62. Rupert Jones, T. 1887. ‘History of Sarsens.’ Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 23: 122-154. Simmonds, S. (ed.). 2007. Values and Voices of the Avebury World Heritage Site. Devizes: Kennet District Council. Simmonds, S. 2010. ‘The Avebury Residents’ Pack’, Conservation Bulletin 63: 10-12. London: English Heritage. Smiles, S. 1994. The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination. New Haven: Yale. Smith, A.C. 1884. British and Roman antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs in a hundred square miles round Abury. Marlborough: Marlborough College Natural History Society. Smith, A. C. 1867. Excavations at Avebury. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 10: 209-16. Smith, I. 1959. Windmill Hill and Avebury: a short account of the excavations 1925-1939. The Clover Press. Smith, I. 1965. Windmill Hill and Avebury: excavations by Alexander Keiller, 1925-1939. Clarendon Press. Spaeth, D.A. 2000. The Church in an Age of Danger: parsons and parishioners, 1660-1740. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Stout, A. 2008. Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in Pre-war Britain. Oxford: Blackwell. Stukeley, William. 2003. Mortimer, N. (ed.). Stukeley Illustrated: William Stukeley's Rediscovery of Britain's Ancient Sites. Sutton Mallet: Green Magic. Stukeley, William. 1743. Abury: A Temple of the British Druids. (London). https://readingroo.ms/6/4/6/2/64626/64626-h/64626-h.htm Stukeley, William. 1882. Lukis, W.C. (ed.). The Family Memoirs, vol. 1. Surtees Society, vol. lxxiii, for 1880. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=awAVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9&source=gbs_selected_pa ges&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false Stukeley, William. 1883. Lukis, W.C. (ed.). The Family Memoirs, vol. 2. Surtees Society, vol. lxxvi, for 1883. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1wAVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7&source=gbs_selected_pa ges&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false Stukeley, William. 1887. Lukis, W.C. (ed.). The Family Memoirs, vol. 3. Surtees Society, vol. lxxx, for 1885. https://ia601608.us.archive.org/20/items/familymemoirsofr03stuk/familymemoirsofr03stuk.p df Stukeley, William. 1980. The Commentarys, Diary, and Common-Place Book of William Stukeley. London: Doppler Press. Sweet, R. 2004. Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth Century Britain. London: Hambledon and London. Symonds, R. 1859. Long. C.E. (ed.). Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the Great Civil War. London: Camden Society. Thomas, J. H. 2003. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society: The First 150 Years. Devizes: WANHS. Thompson, M. 2009. Darwin’s Pupil: The Place of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury 1834- 1913, in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. Ely: Melrose Books. Twining, T. 1723. Avebury in Wiltshire, the remains of a Roman work, erected by Vespasian and Julius Agricola, during their several commands in Brittany. London: Joseph Downing. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ppdbAAAAQAAJ&dq=Twinning%20Avebury%20in%20Wiltsh ire&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Tylden-Wright, D. 1991. John Aubrey: A Life. London: Harper Collins. Ucko, P.J., Hunter, M., Clark, A.J. and David, A. 1991. Avebury Reconsidered: from the 1660s to the 1990s. London: Unwin Hyman. https://archive.org/details/aveburyreconside0000unse Wiltshire Family History Society. 2003. The Bishop’s Transcripts and Parish registers of Avebury: baptisms & burials 1607-1837. Devizes: Wiltshire Family History Society. Additional sources: Stonehenge and Avebury 1:10000 Map: Exploring the World Heritage Site, 2013. English Heritage Maps. ISBN:9781848021266