The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volumes 65-66Edward Hungerford Goddard Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1970 - Natural history Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. |
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... rabbits on the Down in one day , and usually between 5,000 and 6,000 rabbits were killed each year on the warren.2 There were always plenty of rabbits for the sportsmen to kill . The rabbit carcases were paunched in a shed near Delling ...
... rabbits on the Down in one day , and usually between 5,000 and 6,000 rabbits were killed each year on the warren.2 There were always plenty of rabbits for the sportsmen to kill . The rabbit carcases were paunched in a shed near Delling ...
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... rabbits in winter . It was wasteful to feed many buck rabbits when a smaller number could ' kindle ' the same number of does , but on Fyfield Down it was impossible to regulate the composition of the warren because there were so many ...
... rabbits in winter . It was wasteful to feed many buck rabbits when a smaller number could ' kindle ' the same number of does , but on Fyfield Down it was impossible to regulate the composition of the warren because there were so many ...
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... rabbits closely grazed , but Mr. Taylor decided that the rabbit population had to be eradi- cated . This was because the rabbits also dug ' scrapes ' in the turf which made riding dangerous . Mr. Bull agreed to kill the rabbits in six ...
... rabbits closely grazed , but Mr. Taylor decided that the rabbit population had to be eradi- cated . This was because the rabbits also dug ' scrapes ' in the turf which made riding dangerous . Mr. Bull agreed to kill the rabbits in six ...
Contents
EDITORS NOTE iii | 1 |
THE HERON IN WILTSHIRE by Geoffrey L Boyle | 7 |
THE WEATHER OF 1969 by T E Rogers | 15 |
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17th century Aegean Archaeol archaeological Ashton Keynes Avon bank barrow birds Blackcaps body sherds bone bowl breeding records Bristol Bronze Age brown Budbury building burial buried soil cairn century A.D. chalk chamber Chippenham clay clay-with-flints CMRP Coate Water Corsham Corsham Lake Cunnington Cypriote daggers decorated Devizes ditch double-axes Durrington Walls early east EJMB enclosure evidence excavation F. K. Annable fabric flint Forest fragments Fyfield grey core Grose Hill hill-fort Iron Age kilns late layer Luckington Marlborough MCNHS metres Miss mound Museum Neolithic orthostat Pewsey pipes ploughing possible post-holes pottery probably rabbits rampart Red Shore remains road Roman Romano-British Salisbury seen Sept settlement Sheppard sherds species stone suggested surface Swindon Swindon SF vessels Wansdyke ware Wessex Wessex Culture West Wilton Water Wiltshire Wood Wormald