Gowland's finds at Stonehenge: items for exhibition at a symposium, 1975
Reference code
GOW/02/06
Title
Gowland's finds at Stonehenge: items for exhibition at a symposium, 1975
Date
1975
Level of description
File
Extent and format
1 folder
Scope and content
A folder apparently assembled in 1975, with the involvement of John Hopkins (Librarian of Society of Antiquaries, 1964-1986). The contents relate to Gowland's finds at Stonehenge.
1. Envelope, printed with 'Imperial College of Science and Technology', and manuscript annotation 'Micrograph of Roman Iron'. This contains:
- letter from E Neil Baynes to Gowland, 19 May 1913, concerning a possible smelting floor uncovered at an unnamed site; Baynes encloses three photographs of the site, and proposes to leave two bars of iron and a piece of slag at Gowland's house the following day.
- Letter from Baynes to Gowland, 14 July 1914, asking if the report on the iron bars is finished.
- slip of paper with an address for AG Ogilvie.
- photographic print with no annotations. This is the same as the print at GOW/03/01: 'A. Roman Iron (x 60 diameters) - showing particles of slag and contained oxide which has oxidised on surface.'
2. Letter from HC Bowen, RCHM(E), to John Hopkins, Society of Antiquaries of London, 24 March 1975. Hoping that Hopkins 'will be able to put out the Gowland etc chips with a signed descriptive note on 10 May next'; Hopkins has made a 'discovery' appropriate to disclose at the 'sarsen symposium'.
This refers to a meeting held at the Society in May 1975, reviewing progress on the survey of sarsen stones in Wessex, launched on 23 February 1974 (see Antiquaries Journal 57 (1977), pp 185-196).
3. Manuscript notes in John Hopkins's hand, relating to the excavations of 1901 (3 sheets) and to 'material found during the excavations', this apparently being a label for a display at the meeting in May 1975.
News Sheet No. 2 of the Evolution of the Landscape Project contains a report of the 'Sarsen Symposium' held at the Society of Antiquaries on 10 May 1975: among the exhibits on display were 'Sarsen maul and chips from Wm. Gowland's Stonehenge excavations, 1901 (Mr J Hopkins, Librarian)', marked as ''Retained with the Archive' (see WSS/01/01 - formerly MS 953/1/1).
The chips could not be traced among the collections in 2025. The sarsen maul is LDSAL 866, on long-term loan to the Faith Museum, Bishop Auckland, Durham.
1. Envelope, printed with 'Imperial College of Science and Technology', and manuscript annotation 'Micrograph of Roman Iron'. This contains:
- letter from E Neil Baynes to Gowland, 19 May 1913, concerning a possible smelting floor uncovered at an unnamed site; Baynes encloses three photographs of the site, and proposes to leave two bars of iron and a piece of slag at Gowland's house the following day.
- Letter from Baynes to Gowland, 14 July 1914, asking if the report on the iron bars is finished.
- slip of paper with an address for AG Ogilvie.
- photographic print with no annotations. This is the same as the print at GOW/03/01: 'A. Roman Iron (x 60 diameters) - showing particles of slag and contained oxide which has oxidised on surface.'
2. Letter from HC Bowen, RCHM(E), to John Hopkins, Society of Antiquaries of London, 24 March 1975. Hoping that Hopkins 'will be able to put out the Gowland etc chips with a signed descriptive note on 10 May next'; Hopkins has made a 'discovery' appropriate to disclose at the 'sarsen symposium'.
This refers to a meeting held at the Society in May 1975, reviewing progress on the survey of sarsen stones in Wessex, launched on 23 February 1974 (see Antiquaries Journal 57 (1977), pp 185-196).
3. Manuscript notes in John Hopkins's hand, relating to the excavations of 1901 (3 sheets) and to 'material found during the excavations', this apparently being a label for a display at the meeting in May 1975.
News Sheet No. 2 of the Evolution of the Landscape Project contains a report of the 'Sarsen Symposium' held at the Society of Antiquaries on 10 May 1975: among the exhibits on display were 'Sarsen maul and chips from Wm. Gowland's Stonehenge excavations, 1901 (Mr J Hopkins, Librarian)', marked as ''Retained with the Archive' (see WSS/01/01 - formerly MS 953/1/1).
The chips could not be traced among the collections in 2025. The sarsen maul is LDSAL 866, on long-term loan to the Faith Museum, Bishop Auckland, Durham.