Phil Harding
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
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No, it's at a site called Bulford.
Bulford is a small village on the southern limits of the Salisbury Plain training area, a military area.
It's about five kilometres east, northeast of Stonehenge itself.
So it's more or less within the Stonehenge landscape.
And we were commissioned to do some excavations there in advance of a new development to create a larger garrison for the army because we were closing down the garrison in Germany.
So there was a massive archaeological program in the southern part of Salisbury Plain.
And of course, being that close to Stonehenge, it had to have some archaeology.
And that's where I come in.
Well, the area that we excavated, it covered an area of 13 hectares.
So it was a big area.
And there are four phases.
And they basically divide into brackets of 500 years.
So the first phase is about 3,500 BC.
That's an early Neolithic phase.
And then our phase two comes in about 3,000 BC.
And that is at the beginning of the late Neolithic.
And of course, the point about this 3000 B.C.
phase is that it is where they're doing the groundwork.
They're cutting the ditch that would be later on is the embryonic Stonehenge.
And then our stage three is 2500 B.C.,
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