Blick Mead – a Mesolithic site, Stonehenge origins

Olney Archaeological Society

This talk has been cancelled.

Tuesday, 17th March 2020 from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon
Olney Centre, High Street, Olney MK46 4EF

The discovery of a uniquely long-lived Mesolithic occupation site at Blick Mead, near Amesbury, with a detailed radio carbon date sequence ranging from the 8th to the late 5th millennium BC, is set to transform our knowledge of the origins of Stonehenge.

Speaker: Prof. David Jacques, a Professorial Research Fellow, University of Buckingham, author, Fulbright Alumnus, FSA. Blick Mead: Exploring the ‘first place’ in the Stonehenge landscape, edited by David Jacques, was published by Peter Lang Publishing in 2018.

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