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Winklebury - Berwick St John

Nearest town: Shaftesbury

Site type: historic site

Access: Public

Church name: No Data

Diocese: No Data

County: Wiltshire

Country: England

Grid ref: ST951212

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: No data

Recorded by: Peter Andrews

Protection & responsibility: No data

Yews recorded at this site: Lost

Notes: General Pitt Rivers, regarded as the father of modern archaeology, started his pioneering first season's work in 1881-1882, close to his home at the promontory Iron Age hillfort of Winklebury. During the excavations, the general opened a number of British barrows and removed an ancient yew tree