Many have thought that the 18th Century Antiquarian of Avebury and Stonehenge fame William Stukely to be unreliable in some of his recordings of Ancient sites around Wiltshire.
A group of archaeologists are currently looking at one of his drawings in reference to a site at water meadows, Barrow Farm, near Marlborough that might change some of that opinion. A few metres away from where Mike Parker Pearson (Sheffield University) and his colleagues (from other Universities including Leicester, Southampton and Bristol) are working, is the site which Stukeley recorded below. The large Sarsen stones are no longer there, but there is evidence to support their existence and of the roadways marked.
The team of archaeologists are hoping to find evidence of more Sarsens which would form a causeway across the ford for the crossing of large stones on their way to Stonehenge. In the picture below holes are being bored to find evidence of Sarsens that would have been used to make the causeway.
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