Photographs, drawings and sketches relating to Gowland's excavations at Stonehenge in 1901 and his report 'Recent Excavations at Stonehenge' published in Archaeologia 58 (1902)
Reference code
GOW/01/10
Title
Photographs, drawings and sketches relating to Gowland's excavations at Stonehenge in 1901 and his report 'Recent Excavations at Stonehenge' published in Archaeologia 58 (1902)
Level of description
Sub-series
Extent and format
1 box
Scope and content
This accumulation was boxed separately. Inside the box a word-processed note describes the contents as 'Photographs of William Gowland's excavations at Stonehenge, 1901-02 taken by Clarissa Frances Miles', noting 'a set of 20 photographs, mounted'. In fact, 21 mounted prints are included. Of these, 19 have counterparts in the set of photographs held at the Wiltshire Museum, attributed to EH Goddard.
The box is also contains a selection of other material relating to Gowland's methods for the excavation and particularly to the preparation of his report.
The contents of this box appear to have been assembled in their present form no later than 2019, by extraction from GOW/01, as part of the selection process for proposed loans to an exhibition planned by English Heritage to take place at Stonehenge in 2020. Pencil annotations to documents in this box and elsewhere in GOW/01 indicate that up to 26 individual items were considered for loan, although in the end only 20 were selected. The exhibition at Stonehenge eventually took place in 2022-23.
The box is also contains a selection of other material relating to Gowland's methods for the excavation and particularly to the preparation of his report.
The contents of this box appear to have been assembled in their present form no later than 2019, by extraction from GOW/01, as part of the selection process for proposed loans to an exhibition planned by English Heritage to take place at Stonehenge in 2020. Pencil annotations to documents in this box and elsewhere in GOW/01 indicate that up to 26 individual items were considered for loan, although in the end only 20 were selected. The exhibition at Stonehenge eventually took place in 2022-23.
Contents
- GOW/01/10/01 - View of the 'leaning stone' before it was set upright
- GOW/01/10/02 - Registering frame in position round Excavation VI
- GOW/01/10/03 - The 'leaning stone' with the cradle and cables attached
- GOW/01/10/04 - The 'leaning stone' set upright
- GOW/01/10/05 - View of raising stone 56
- GOW/01/10/06 - View of raising stone 56
- GOW/01/10/07 - View of raising stone 56
- GOW/01/10/08 - View of raising stone 56
- GOW/01/10/09 - View of raising stone 56
- GOW/01/10/10 - View of raising stone 56
- GOW/01/10/11 - View of raising stone 56
- GOW/01/10/12 - Excavation around the base of leaning stone
- GOW/01/10/13 - Sifting soil at foot of leaning stone
- GOW/01/10/14 - Measuring rod against a stone
- GOW/01/10/15 - View of excavation round base of stone 56
- GOW/01/10/16 - Excavation round base of stone 56
- GOW/01/10/17 - Excavation round base of stone 56
- GOW/01/10/18 - Excavation round corner of base of stone 56
- GOW/01/10/19 - Excavation round base of stone 56
- GOW/01/10/20 - Excavation round base of stone
- GOW/01/10/21 - Fourteen stones laid out on the ground
- GOW/01/10/22 - ‘Stonehenge. – Altar … not necessarily for burnt offerings’.
- GOW/01/10/23 - Adjustable Registering Frame
- GOW/01/10/24 - Registering frame and vertical rod
- GOW/01/10/25 - General Plan of the Excavations
- GOW/01/10/26 - Excavation II
- GOW/01/10/27 - ‘Excavation Q. Section south-east side’
- GOW/01/10/28 - ‘Excavation V. Transverse section’
- GOW/01/10/29 - ‘Japanese using maul’
- GOW/01/10/30 - ‘Transport of a huge block of stone. From a Japanese drawing’
- GOW/01/10/31 - ‘Transport of a huge block of stone. From a Japanese drawing’
- GOW/01/10/32 - ‘Transport of a huge block of stone. From a Japanese drawing’
- GOW/01/10/33 - Sun-worship in Japan
- GOW/01/10/34 - Sun-worship in Japan. From a Japanese print’