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Re: Women in archaeology - Maud Cunnington
Aug 24, 2010, 18:48
Not an archaeologist, but she wrote about visiting some pretty remote parts of England (for the time), including a visit to every county: Celia Fiennes.

A Wiltshire-born near contemporary of Daniel Defoe's, she travelled the country on horseback and wrote about her travels (this is in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, when even the better roads were little more than muddy tracks).

She merited an episode/chapter in Nick Crane's "Great British Journeys" TV series/book and that's as good a recommendation as you need. Here she is on Stonehenge:

Stonehenge that is reckoned one of the wonders of England how such prodigious stones should be brought there; no such sort of stone is seen in the country nearer than 20 mile; they are placed on the side of a hill in rude irregular form, two stones stand up and one laid on their tops with mortises into each other, and thus are severall in a round like a wall with spaces in between, but some are fallen down so spoyle the order or breach in the temple –- as some thinke it was in the heathen tymes….to increase the wonder of the story is that none can count them twice alike, they stand confused, and some single stones at a distance, but I have told them often and bring their number to 91.
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